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August 2020 U.S. climate outlook: Tropical wetness to douse the East Coast while dryness likely to continue across Southwest

August 3, 2020

The August 2020 outlook favors hotter-than-average temperatures along both coasts, while tropical moisture is likely to lead to a wetter-than-average August along the East Coast.

June 2020: third-hottest June on record

July 14, 2020

June 2020 broke the streak of each month being warmest or second warmest on record by being only the third-warmest June on record.

July 2020 climate outlook has no good news for the U.S. Southwest

July 1, 2020

July temperatures are favored to be in the warmest third of the recent climate record for much of the U.S. In the drought-stricken Southwest, the odds of well below average precipitation are higher than the odds of an average or wetter-than-average July.

Climate.gov tweet chat: Talk with education experts on climate change education

June 24, 2020

Join three education experts to talk about how engaging, empowering and educating others can lead to powerful climate action.

May 2020: Global temperatures tie for record hottest

June 15, 2020

May 2020 tied with May 2016 as the warmest May on record for the globe, continuing 2020’s streak of having every single month either be the warmest or second-warmest month on record

June 2020 temperature and precipitation outlook

June 1, 2020

While the precipitation outlook for June is varied, the temperature outlook is one-sided, with most of the country having a higher chance for a warm June than a cool one.

April 2020: another month that’s the second warmest on record

May 14, 2020

Like the months before it, April 2020 was also the second warmest on record for the globe, which means 2020 is almost certain to be among the four warmest years on record.

May 2020 temperature and precipitation outlook

May 4, 2020

The May 2020 temperature and precipitation outlook issued by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center forecasts a warmer-than-average May for the western United States and Gulf Coast and a drier-than-average month for the Great Lakes.

March 2020 continues hot start to the year

April 14, 2020

Global temperatures in March 2020 were the second warmest on record, helping to start spring off just as abnormally warm as winter ended.

Annual forecast challenge and other research highlight the complexity of sea ice prediction

April 8, 2020

In 2015, NOAA's Climate Program Office (CPO) invited grant proposals from sea ice and climate scientists looking to better understand and predict Arctic sea ice behavior, on timescales ranging from days to decades. This is our second story on some of the resulting research.

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