Large-scale shifting of the weight of the atmosphere between mid- and high latitudes creates climate patterns known as the Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillations. These patterns have a big influence on winter weather in the Eastern U.S.
Rebecca Lindsey
More than 90 percent of the warming that has happened on Earth over the past 50 years has occurred in the ocean. Not all of that heating is detectable yet at the surface
Present since the last ice age, most of the world's glaciers are now shrinking or disappearing altogether as the climate gets warmer.
Influence of El Niño and La Niña on Southwest Rainfall
February 11, 2011
Dry Winter in the Southwest
February 10, 2011
Another Wintry Winter for the Eastern U.S.
February 8, 2011
For the fifth year in a row, late spring snow cover was below average again in 2022.
Capping off the warmest decade on record, the average global temperature in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest year since reliable records began in 1880.
Early wet season deluge in Australia
December 31, 2010