Max Herrera the guy who tracks extreme temperatures believes this reading is incorrect in his usual temperate manner!

https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lvcgyzkb7k2e 

I have not seen a verified dewpoint above 34C - most such readings are from the Persian Gulf region where the sea temperature is around 34C at this time of year.

Surprise there have been no posts about the heavy snowfall across Australia.. snowing even in Queensland. 

Some places have seen the heaviest snowfall in many years. Places seeing up to 40cm.

This is from the other week for somewhere in Kuwait..

Met office forecast - that's a dew point of 37.5C!

I'm afraid that humidity reading is completely wrong.

Since the 20th July the highest dewpoint recorded at Kuwait International Airport has been 16C. Most days at maximum temperature in mid afternoon, the temperature has been 48-50C and the dewpoint typically 10-12C. That yields a typical humidity of 10-15%. The same readings can be seen at Basra in Iraq and Ahwaz in Iran - all around that same area.

Agreed those locations are arid dry zones as in the Philippines their dew points are in the mid 20s.

This was a forecast not a reading, and secondly it's for a coastal location not Kuwait international.

The location is Shuwaikh

Yes I get that, but the forecast is complete garbage - a surprise from the Met Office. You would think that their data at least would be internally consistent.

Snowfall in the mountains, but still exceptional

https://watchers.news/2025/08/02/hundreds-vehicles-stranded-rare-snowstorm-new-south-wales-australia/ 

Apparently the PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation) is at a 170-year record negative value, of -4.0.

Anyone have any ideas if this could have implications for the coming winter?

Not unusal for late August but quite a lot there first thing.

https://www.facebook.com/Norwegianscenicroutes/ 

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Early-season cold Anomaly across North America

https://watchers.news/2025/08/30/cross-polar-flow-weak-polar-vortex-drive-early-season-cold-anomaly-north-america/ 

Overnight lows up to 10C below norm, and frost possible in the coming week

The pattern over the last 170 years and a brief explanation: 

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/pdo/ 

40c in Canada yesterday,  an Autumn record 

What a contrast from that reported two posts back! (#987)

Very simplistically a negative phase is associated with a stronger polar vortex and if that happens then it increases the chance of mild and wet for us.

The general rule is if the year starts with a 2 then it'll be a mild winter for us.

Interesting. A few of the (admitedly unofficial) long range forecasts I have seen for North America this winter suggest a weakend polar vortex and deeper cold for the northern part than experienced in recent years. I can see the logic to a certain extent. Given the high SSTs in the region, they may promote dominant HP cells further north than usual in the Pacific, which would promote deeper Arctic plunges though the central and eastern parts of the continent, but all to play for, as they say. 

https://www.earth.com/news/unprecedented-collapse-panamas-ocean-upwelling-fails-for-the-first-time-in-40-years/ 

A complex phenomenon - reasons extensively discussed in the link - but with serious implications for the fisheries and reefs in the Gulf of Panama

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Not unusual. More just an awesome sight. 

https://sarajevotimes.com/the-first-snow-blankets-countries-across-the-region 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0m4309mxygt 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4gwkr1r5d7o 

https://watchers.news/2025/10/13/typhoon-halong-remnants-storm-surge-floods-alaska-coastal-villages/ 

https://watchers.news/2025/10/13/state-of-emergency-declared-new-york-powerful-noreaster-east-coast/