A wet finish to the year is increasingly favoured across Australia as a major #climate driver emerges for the first time in 3 years.

During recent weeks, changes in #ocean #temperatures show the development of a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) — the wet phase of the Indian Ocean, which rivals La Niña for its positive impact on #Australia's #rainfall.

Negative IODs in the past have contributed to most of Australia's #wettest #winters & #springs on record. #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-06/wet-weather-australia-end-of-2025-indian-ocean-dipole/105611794

Lunch time rain. Now bright sun. A friend in the #US has just asked for #recommendations about when to arrive in the #UK for a planned #trip next #spring, probably travelling from #London to #Scotland

My wife's just commented that we're having #April #weather at the moment. We've just had the #wettest #winter on record but #record high #temperatures for many months and last year had a week of 70°F temperatures in #February.

Is there any sensible advice I can offer?

#Mapped: The World’s #Wettest and #Driest Countries

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-worlds-wettest-and-driest-countries/

Death Valley is alive this year. A #super #bloom is the latest sign.

In California’s Death Valley region, the last few months have been remarkably loud.
And the latest bellow is still ringing out, with the area’s #native #wildflowers bursting into bloom.

The flowers have filled a place best known for its shades of browns and grays with brilliant blasts of yellow and purple and sprinkles of pink and cream.

This display comes just weeks after the 🔹resurrection of a long-dead lake,🔹 which filled the park’s Badwater Basin and drew visitors from across the country for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to paddle across a body of water rarely revived since prehistoric days.

These fleeting phenomena can both be traced to the unusual and record-setting precipitation that has inundated the state since August, when Hurricane Hilary gave Death Valley its #wettest #day ever.

Subsequent storms dumped even more rain on the desert, eventually 🌟dragging it out of a years-long #megadrought.🌟

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/13/death-valley-super-bloom/

So 2023 was both the #warmest and #wettest year since my records began in 2009.

• Almost a DEGREE (0.9°C) warmer than my previous warmest year which was… 2022.
• The wettest year in my series, beating 2014’s 1069.1mm by 59mm.
• My record low MSLP (pressure) of 954.3 mb (28.2 inHg) was recorded on 2nd November.

#weather #ukweather #meteorology

From: @wessexweather
https://mastodonapp.uk/@wessexweather/111681818887194479

A RECORD WET AND WARM CHRISTMAS 2023:

Regardless of the #Christmas holiday, the #Northland saw one of its #warmest and #wettest three-day stretches of #weather for late December.

Here's my write up on what we saw December 23, 24, and 25.

POST: https://www.facebook.com/WeathermanRustyMehlberg/posts/pfbid031NgUTyeDEDR12hYwysQYSJhaUTmV6puUNniEH3xqJWr5qPzhWretzEVHiE9F6gcVl

#wxtooter #wx #MNwx #WIwx #UPwx

#UK #weather: #May on track to be #wettest on record with more #rain to come | UK weather | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/21/uk-weather-may-on-track-to-be-wettest-on-record-with-more-rain-to-come

#Meteorology

#Earth & #Energy

https://futurism.com/new-data-shows-2017-has-been-one-of-the-hottest-wettest-years-on-record-in-the-u-s/

New #Data #Shows 2017 Has Been One of the #Hottest, #Wettest #Years on #Record in the #US
The nation has already lost 57 lives to severe storms, freezes, and floods this year.

#climatechange #disaster #globalwarming