Monthly mean temperature anomalies were 5℃ over the region spanning the Eastern Siberian Sea to the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Archipelago. Positive anomalies were observed over Eurasia (region spanning Northern Europe to western Russia and western China), Africa, Central America, and northern and central South America. Above normal precipitation was observed over southern India, the eastern Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia (excluding the Indochinese Peninsula), Australia, Mongolia, some region of northwestern and southern Africa, Canada, western USA, and northern and central South America.
For timely detection and monitoring of major climate events over the Asia-Pacific region, the latest observed weekly, monthly and seasonal mean values of 2m temperature (T2M), outgoing long wave radiation (OLR), rainfall (RAIN), sea surface temperature (SST), surface wind at 10m (Wind10m) and geopotential height at 500hPa (Z500) are provided.
