Extratropical Highlights

  Table of Indices  (Table 3)

  Global Surface Temperature  E1

  Temperature Anomalies (Land Only)  E2

  Global Precipitation  E3

  Regional Precip Estimates (a)  E4

  Regional Precip Estimates (b)  E5

  U.S. Precipitation  E6

  Northern Hemisphere

  Southern Hemisphere

• SLP  E14
  
• 500-hPa Heights  E15
  
• 300-hPa Wind Vectors  E16
  
• 500-hPa Persistence  E17
  
• 500-hPa Heights Anom  E18
  

  Stratosphere

  Appendix 2: Additional Figures

OCTOBER 2009

FIGURE E17.  Southern Hemisphere percentage of days in which 500-hPa height anomalies greater than 15 m (red) and less than -15 m (blue) were observed.