This alignment is a flip-flop from last month. The anomaly map on the left is a product of a merged land surface temperature (In the atmosphere, 500-millibar height pressure anomalies correlate well with temperatures at the Earth's surface. 2020 has been designated as Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Organization.. 2020 has been heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, and the largest economic recession since the Great … Canada’s former ethics commissioner says Justin Trudeau’s public apology in the WE scandal this week “effectively said, ‘I’ve not followed the Act.” The pandemic has been left to run wild in the U.S. with no co-ordinated federal strategy, reports Jackson Proskow. Roughly 85 per cent of members of the military were ordered into isolation in April amid coronavirus fears. The anomaly field even shows some significant positive features in the north that were associated with floods, mostly in areas of low population density.
January precipitation was generally drier than normal across parts of Alaska, the southwestern contiguous U.S., central and western Europe, New Zealand, and parts of eastern Asia. The information provided here is based directly upon these data):As the sun reaches its furthest south position the major rain features across continents have followed and have peaks south of the Equator (see Africa and South America) as seen in the GPCP global monthly analysis for January 2020. Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day encourages people in the United States to participate in cleaning up the federal lands. ‘This is a place where we really could use massive scale-up and that would be very helpful in addressing both the COVID-19 pandemic and the overdose crisis,’ For those dealing with addiction, life amid the COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened the struggle. Authors Rebecca L ... Mortality data (through 2017) were collected by the National Center for Health Statistics. Further to the east this midlatitude storm track has mostly negative anomalies. Overview of worldwide holidays and observances during the year 2020. Events and observations associated with the holidays we list may be canceled or otherwise affected due to measures taken to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO is reassured of the quality of the ongoing investigations and the response measures implemented in Wuhan, and the commitment to share information regularly. In the southeast portion of the country, where wildfires were concentrated, the limited rainfall was helpful, but insufficient to end the fires. Global News 514,176 views. For the Pacific feature positive precipitation above the mean is evident at the western edge of the feature in China, extending to the east over the water through southern Japan. ... Jan 7: Tuesday: Orthodox Christmas Day: Orthodox : Jan 7: Tuesday: International Programmers' Day: Worldwide observance : Jan 13: Monday: ... May 7: Thursday: National Day of Prayer: Observance : May 8: Friday: France had its 10th warmest January since national records began in 1900. Please check at least one of the boxes. A positive SST anomaly off the southwest coast of Africa is also associated with excess rainfall over that ocean area and extending onto the coastal countries.Australia, which has suffered an extended drought and one of the worst wildfire seasons in their history has gotten some relief in January as the monsoon has arrived. The Asian monsoon produced rainfall across the Maritime Continent and into parts of Australia, giving some relief to the wildfire-ravaged continent.Positive rainfall anomalies are still prevalent in the western Indian Ocean, as they have been over the last few months, again associated with positive SST anomalies, even though the IOD index has gone neutral due to warming in the eastern portion of that ocean. Wetter-than-normal conditions were notable across the northwestern and eastern half of the contiguous U.S., eastern Brazil, northern Europe, western and central Russia, and parts of southern and eastern Asia.Select national information is highlighted below.