World Weather and Climate: 2018

Weather Anomalies -- the News-Makers!

Click through the images below to see temperature, precipitation, wind, and cloudiness anomalies through 2018. Some highlights for each month are given below.

Temperature

Departure from Normal

Precipitation

Relative to Normal

Wind

Departure from Normal

Cloud Cover

Departure from Normal

Highlights ...

Warmer, drier, and sunnier than normal weather extended summer in much of Australia
Temperatures near the North Pole returned to near normal, while much of Europe was either wetter or colder than normal -- Spain received triple its normal precipitation
Interior Asia and the Mideast baked under earlier than normal heat -- Bahrain had its warmest March since record-keeping began in 1902
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Acknowledgements

The maps and data are courtesy of the Copernicus Climate Change service.

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Last updated 05-08-2019 by Andrew Guenthner. Released under the MIT Open Source License