IRI Climate Briefing for July

Tony’s take-home message from today’s climate briefing: “Well, the La Niña finally died.”

The new set of forecasts show that conditions are expected to be neutral–as opposed to favoring another La Niña or an El Niño–through at least spring of next year.

I don’t have time to prep a more full report, as I’m getting ready for a reporting trip to the Philippines and Indonesia next month. However, I did want to highlight the flood data from the Dartmouth Flood Observatory that Ale Giannini showed us this afternoon. I had never heard of this valuable resource before, and certainly would have used it in my days as an infographics editor. Ale first put up a composite map of all the floods which have been recorded in 2008 (show here June events are numbered 62-75; click on the image to load the larger version).

Then she showed how a few rainfall anomaly plots for June compared:

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