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The article summarizes the temperature and precipitation conditions across West Africa in 2013. Topics discussed include the near average annual temperature observed across the region, the prominence of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, and the above average annual rainfall recorded during the season.

The article presents a climatological assessment of the heavy rainfall and flooding that occurred from June-October 2012 in the Sahel, a land between the Sahara desert and the Savanna lands in the Gulf of Guinea region in West Africa. The recorded increased rainfall trend and floods were attributed to above-normal sea surface temperature (SST) in the northern tropical and sub-tropical Atlantic Ocean. An anomaly in the level of westerly jet across the eastern Atlantic warming was recorded.

The article summarizes the temperature and precipitation conditions across North America, Central America and the Caribbean in 2013. Topics discussed include significant flooding events in Canada, the EF-5 tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma, and the near average annual temperatures across the Caribbean.