Late season dangerous north-turning major tropical cyclones will bring life threatening high wind and excessive rainfall to Japan and life-threatening flooding to the Southwest U.S.

A super warm equatorial subsurface Pacific Ocean has shifted east and emerging off the northwest coast of South America. El Nino is approaching rapidly! The influence on the atmosphere is causing excessive rainfall events affecting the U.S. (beyond just the effects of Florence).

Keeping the regional sea surface temperature anomaly regimes such as the super warmth off the East U.S. Coast influence on Florence in mind, emerging SSTA patterns in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans are signs of historic Australian drought ahead.

Unusually warm waters off the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast U.S. and attendant sea level rise helped Florence produce unusually extreme rainfall and an immense storm surge.