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Climate & Pumpkins

Caitlyn Kennedy | October 22, 2015

Above-average rainfall this past spring in Morton, Illinois, the so-called “pumpkin capital of the world,” is to blame for a pumpkin shortage this fall.

An upper-level low does a box step over US Southwest, brings flooding to Southern California

Tom Di Liberto | October 21, 2015

Torrential rains, flash floods and mudslides in southern California were the result of the itinerate journey of an upper-level low pressure system.

Thousand-year deluge in South Carolina

Tom Di Liberto | October 9, 2015

Rainfall was measured by the foot in South Carolina in an event that statistically would happen, on average, once every thousand years.

This summer's West Coast algal bloom was unusual. What would usual look like?

Tom Di Liberto | September 30, 2015

Tom Di Liberto explains how algae and other phytoplankton usually behave.

Wait, a hurricane formed where in the Atlantic?

Tom Di Liberto | September 3, 2015

While the Atlantic hurricane season has been generally below-average, that doesn't mean it can't have a rare event.

Central Pacific hurricane party: three's company

Tom Di Liberto | September 3, 2015

An over-active hurricane season in the central/eastern Pacific Ocean went into overdrive as three major hurricanes occurred at the same time.

Built to Last: Climate Data Ensure Oil Supply Route in Gulf of Mexico

Caitlyn Kennedy, LuAnn Dahlman | August 27, 2015

For three days in 2005, flooding from Hurricane Katrina cut off the only road to Port Fourchon. Officials had to decide: did the risk of future flooding justify the cost of raising the roadway out of the Gulf's rising waters?

Risk of very large fires could increase sixfold by mid-century in the US

Caitlyn Kennedy | August 26, 2015

Climate change is expected to intensify fire-friendly weather conditions across the US and to lengthen the fire season.

One forecaster's view on extreme El Niño in the eastern Pacific

Ken Takahashi | August 24, 2015

Guest blogger Ken Takahashi assesses the prospects for this El Niño to be an extreme one in the eastern tropical Pacific, like the 1982 and 1997 events were.

Stay out of the scum, warns NOAA's latest bulletin on Lake Erie's Harmful Algal Bloom

Rebecca Lindsey | August 19, 2015

Lake Erie’s annual summer bloom is underway, and it's shaping up to be one of the most severe in the past decade.

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