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Thanks to a wavy jet stream and an extremely abnormal air mass, record-breaking warm temperatures were felt across the eastern United States.

A lack of precipitation across the southern and western United States has led to growing drought this winter.

When a flood is forecast for the Red River of the North, community leaders, emergency responders, and residents around Fargo, ND, and Moorhead, MN, can gauge their need for preparation by accessing visualizations showing the extent, depth, and timing of expected flooding.

Much of the southwestern United States has seen below-average amounts of snow fall so far during Winter. While currently impacting ski resorts across the region, the lack of snow could bring even greater problems to water resources later this year.

Capetonians face the prospect of their taps being turned off in the wake of poor precipitation.

During an extremely wet winter so far in France, the Seine River overflowed through Paris flooding streets and buildings nearby.

La Niña usually means a drier than average water year for California. So what happened in 2016-2017 when a weak La Niña coincided with a remarkably wet water year?

Have you ever wondered what the biggest, hottest, coldest or deepest weather records were for your state? So have many people. These data are interesting on the surface, but going Beyond the Data, they also help us think about resiliency in the face of weather, or climate or climate change, or some combination of the above.

Test runs of experimental models for predicting winter snowpack show some success in many  mountain ranges in the western United States.

Early estimates suggest precipitation in the past 7 days was up to 400% of normal in parts of southern California. In hilly terrain scorched by wildfires in December 2017, the heavy January rains led to deadly mudslides.