The South Atlantic Convergence Zone continues to follow climatology closely this season with November cloud band days near normal in expected geographic location. From the rainfall contributions it seems as though there was at least one event that formed equatorward of main SACZ region for these cloud bands.
Latest monthly gridpoint accumulation
Accumulation of cloud band days at grid-points for last month, with red dots indicating centroid of observed cloud bands.
Blue contours show climatological value of cloudband days count.
Seasonal progression of cloudband days
Monthly cloudband days for last year (grey bars) including latest month (red bar). Climatological cloudband days per month
shown in blue line, which blue shading denoting interquartile range of climatology.
interquartile range
Rainfall contributions of cloudbands
Contribution (%) of cloud band events to monthly total rainfall (contour).
Monthly area-averaged cloudband rainfall totals for sector compared to climatological cloudband rainfall monthly totals.
