Temperatures

Europe:  July brought a resurgence of above average conditions with temperatures well above average across eastern Europe, from the Mediterranean in the south northward to Scandinavia.
Asia: In contrast to recent months, central Russia, east of the Ural Mountains, was unusually cool.  Much of Siberia averaged warmer than usual as did Japan, the Korean Peninsula and northeastern China. 
Africa:   Temperatures returned to near-average along coastal areas of western North Africa while central sections including Chad, Niger, Algeria and Libya were much warmer than average for the month, as was much of the central Congo Basin. 
Australia:  Temperatures continued well above average across eastern sections of New South Wales and Victoria. 
North America:  Unusually warm conditions extended from the northern half of Mexico northward through the Great Plains of the United States and in much of north-central Canada. Temperatures were well below average from New England southward to the Mid-Atlantic states in the US. 
South America:  Temperatures were well above average in much of Brazil and Paraguay.  Unusually warm conditions were also observed in eastern Colombia northward into Venezuela. 

Precipitation

Asia:  Very heavy summer monsoon rainfall fell across much of eastern and northern India as well as in both northern and southern Pakistan.  Tropical cyclones along with heavy monsoon rains soaked much of southern China, especially along and near costal areas.  Unusually dry conditions persisted across sections of the North China Plain and developed in Mongolia. 
Indonesia and the Philippines:   Rainfall was unseasonably heavy across sections of Sumatra and Java.  Tropical cyclone activity produced very heavy rains across northern sections of the Philippines. 
Africa:  Rainfall was near to above average across much of the Sahel while unusually dry conditions developed in areas along the Guinea coast in West Africa.  Rainfall was below average across much of western Ethiopia and into eastern border areas of Sudan.  Unusually heavy rain fell across eastern sections of the Demcratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and northwest Tanzania. 
South America:  Rainfall was well above average in extreme western Brazil as well as northern Bolivia and eastern Peru.  Unseasonably dry conditions prevailed over much of the region north of the equator. 
North and Central America:  Much needed rainfall fell across the Florida peninsula in conjunction with a tropical storm while much of the central and northeastern United States was unusually dry.  Drought conditions developed across Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica as below average rainfall in much of those areas persisted during July.  Central and southern Mexico also saw below average rainfall during the month. 
Europe: Very wet across central Europe, Poland especially.  Ununusually heavy rainfall also fell across much of France and in northern Scandinavia.  
Australia and New Zealand: Below average rainfall continued along eastern coastal sections of Queensland and New South Wales and in much of Victoria. Drought conditions continued in many areas of New Zealand as rainfall continued below average. 
 

Oceanic Conditions

Tropics:   The slightly warmer than average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the west-central equatorial Pacific which emerged in June strengthened somewhat in July while near average SSTs continued across much of the eastern portion of the basin.  Despite the modest warming in western areas during July, current observations continue to indicate near neutral conditions and numerical models continue to predict near-neutral to slightly warmer than average conditions to continue over the next 6 to 9 months.  

The eastern two-thirds of the Indian Ocean continue to be warmer than average while the warmer than average SSTs in the Gulf of Guinea have weakened in the tropical Atlantic. Above average temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic persisted through July. 

Mid latitudes:  In the North Pacific, unusually warm waters cover much of western and central areas at low latitudes with below average SSTs located across much of the north.  In the South Pacific, above average SSTs continue to the east of Australia and in central sections of the basin.  In the North Atlantic, a broad band of above average SSTs extended from Europe southwestward into the subtropics.