In mid-November 2019, the 17-th session of the North Eurasia Climate Outlook Forum (NEACOF-17) was held on the basis of Internet resources with the participation of representatives of the Meteorological and Hydrological Services of Russia and the CIS countries. The forum discussed the main features of atmospheric circulation in June-August 2019, the skill score of forecasts of air temperature and precipitation anomalies for June-August 2019, the expected conditions of the SST in ocean and large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns for the upcoming boreal winter 2019/2020. Following the traditions of NEACOF, a consensus forecast of surface air temperature and precipitation anomalies in Russia and the CIS was developed using an objective approach, and based on the results of hydrodynamic modeling from five forecast centers.
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