A new anticyclone dubbed Charon, the ferryman of the dead in Greek mythology, pushed into the region from north Africa, and could lift temperatures above 45 Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in parts of ...

These high biases in sensible heating appear to drive overpredictions of both the daily and seasonal rise of 500-hPa heights in the NAM anticyclone. This diurnal–seasonal resemblance suggests that ...