Should have brought warmer clothes.
In a normal climate without global warming, two sides of the die would represent cooler-than-normal weather, two sides would be normal weather, and two sides would be warmer-than-normal weather.
Looking above at recent temperature anomalies, much of the US and the waters surrounding it are experiencing warmer than normal temperatures: although El Nino driven storms are bringing much needed rain to California, far more is needed to bring California out of drought.
Most of the planet's land and ocean areas were warmer than normal in July.
Meanwhile US waters and the far north are experiencing warmer than normal temperatures, with Alaska warmer than Texas on some days.
Looking above at recent temperature anomalies, the jetstream once again looks like it's bringing cold into the US, while the North Pole and surroundings (that big orange spot) are experiencing much warmer than normal temperatures - not good news for our Arctic thermal shield of ice.
The weather system that brought snow, ice and record low temperatures to many parts of the United States this week left Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia much warmer than normal.
Trewin said the record hot spell was caused by a combination of warmer than normal ocean breezes, few major southerly winds and a lack of easterly troughs that tend to bring rain and cool temperatures.
An average season brings 12 tropical storms, with six hurricanes and three major hurricanes in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to CSU. "While the tropical Atlantic remains warmer than normal, it has cooled somewhat in the eastern portion of the basin," said Phil Klotzbach, who heads the CSU team.
