Watch this space! Next week, in partnership with experts from NOAA Chemical Sciences Lab and the Climate Prediction Center, we're launching a blog about the behavior—and sometimes misbehavior—of the stratospheric polar vortex.
Early development of the ozone hole was moderated by active weather that mixed in ozone-rich air from lower latitudes.
Drought parches the central Amazon in October 2023
October 30, 2023
Out of the 29 Northern Hemisphere summers that led up to a winter El Niño, how many were hot versus cold? Wet versus dry? These maps are a global climate scorecard for the influence of El Niño on June-August climate.
July is the hottest month of the year. How hot might it be in the future?
When forecasters remove the observed trend from sea surface temperatures, the predicted heat wave area drops from 50 percent of the global ocean to 25 percent.
Climate outlooks are different from weather forecasts, and its easy to misunderstand what the maps are telling us.
The warm phase of Earth's most powerful natural climate pattern appears to be on its way.