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Climate highlights of 2023

Haley Thiem | December 27, 2023

Before 2023 officially wraps up we want to highlight some of the climate related stories, maps, and graphs that we brought you over the past year.

Drought parches the central Amazon in October 2023

Rebecca Lindsey | October 30, 2023

Heat and dryness have brought record-low flows to the Amazon's largest tributary, increased fire activity, water shortages, and mass fish kills.

NOAA employs climate adaptation and resilience techniques to save Florida corals from this summer's record-long marine heat wave

Haley Thiem | September 26, 2023

Florida's reefs have experienced unprecedented heat stress this summer. Beyond stopping global warming, what techniques can experts use to help save them?

History of the hottest summer day at thousands of U. S. locations

Rebecca Lindsey | September 21, 2023

Find the hottest summer day for thousands of U.S. stations with this interactive map.

September 2023 ENSO Outlook: An El Niño convo

Tom Di Liberto | September 14, 2023

The September 2023 ENSO Outlook predicts El Niño will stick around at least through January-March 2024. But don't just take it from us, hear directly from the Pacific Ocean and tropical atmosphere, who join the blog to answer some questions.

Former Hurricane Hilary brought Southern California its first-ever tropical storm watch

Haley Thiem | August 21, 2023

Why is it so rare for tropical cyclones to make landfall on the U.S. West Coast?

Time-lapse photos capture drop of glacial lake in Alaska during outburst flood

August 14, 2023

Over two days in early August 2023, a glacial lake broke through its ice dam and poured floodwater into the Mendenhall River near Juneau.

NOAA and partners race to rescue remaining Florida corals from historic ocean heat wave

Rebecca Lindsey | July 28, 2023

Experts are deploying numerous measures to protect, relocate, and “bank” live fragments of coral to help Florida’s Coral Reef survive a heat crisis that may last for months.

Ocean warming since 1991 doubles the size of the marine heat wave forecasted for September 2023

Rebecca Lindsey | July 7, 2023

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.

Antarctic sea ice reaches an early winter record low in June 2023

Michon Scott | June 28, 2023

Sea ice around the continent is the smallest ever observed for this point in the winter growth season.

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