A record-smashing hurricane season in the central North Pacific. Water rationing in Puerto Rico. The biggest one-year jump in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. These and more of 2015's extreme events had one thing in common: El Niño.
Using climate simulations, water managers in the Colorado River basin helped helped stakeholders imagine and prepare for future risks.
The Climate Resilience Toolkit's Water Resources Dashboard is a one-stop website for data and information on drought, flooding, precipitation, climate, and other water-related risks and opportunities.
A not so rainy season: Drought in southern Africa in January 2016
February 17, 2016
From soybeans and sunflowers in North Dakota to cotton and winter wheat in Texas, large stretches of croplands in the U.S. Great Plains rely exclusively on rain. Those croplands are likely to face longer dry spells by mid-century.
Snow-cover duration continued a longer-term pattern in 2021–22, of significantly faster springtime snowmelt.
In many locations, spring snow also melts earlier, reducing summer streamflows.