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 ...

May was not a good month for tropical vacation destinations in the United States -- both Florida and Hawaii had unusually high cloud cover, and Florida and the northern Carribean saw much above average rainfall, culminating in Tropical Storm Alberto on May 25-31, even before the official start of hurricane season.
Abnormally dry weather spread across all of Australia, leading to one of the driest Mays on record
Temperatures were above normal in much of Antarctica -- but still far colder than anywhere else on Earth (see the actual temperature maps for a quick reminder)
Interested in the raw data? See the section below for information on how to build your own maps, or have a look at the data tables on this site.

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Acknowledgements

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

The data is freely available (with a registered account) through the

Climata Data Store Toolbox. The Toolbox includes a (beta) Python API that lets you generate images, download files, and more with customized data processing.

A special thanks to all the scientists and developers whose hard work has made amazing visualizations like these available to the public!

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