The Outlook for December 2020 indicates exceptionally hotter than normal temperatures in Arctic Russia, and severe warm anomalies blanketing much of Canada’s vast northern environs. Arctic regions can also expect more precipitation. Indonesia, India, and south-central Brazil will be much warmer as well.
Australia & New Zealand: Water surplus forecast from Brisbane through the Alps
East Asia: Water surplus will persist in Yellow, Yangtze, & NE China
The forecast through January 2021 indicates that widespread, intense water surpluses will persist in Northeast China and the Yellow and Yangtze Basins, shrinking south of the Yangtze. Deficits will increase in northwestern and coastal southeastern China. Deficits are forecast in Japan and surpluses in North Korea.





