Between the weekly forecast and a seasonal outlook—and often less accurate than both—sit “sub-seasonal” weather predictions. In this profile, atmospheric scientist Libby Barnes talks about her work leading a NOAA task force whose members are trying to overcome the special challenges of forecasting over the 2-week to 2-month horizon.
Flooding in the Atacama Desert: How did that happen?
April 24, 2015
Twin tropical cyclones in western Pacific
March 25, 2015
“Winter” in Alaska
March 18, 2015
Through June, the eastern Pacific was warmer than average, but the lack of a strong gradient in sea surface temperature anomalies between the eastern and western Pacific may have kept the atmosphere from getting in sync with the developing El Niño.
Last summer, climate conditions were primed to deliver an above-average—possibly very active—hurricane season in the Atlantic. And then...? The 2013 Atlantic Hurricane season produced the fewest number of hurricanes since 1982. What happened?
Alaska unseasonably warm in January 2014
February 6, 2014
How is the polar vortex related to the Arctic Oscillation?
January 20, 2014