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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

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. 

NOAA scientists are using advances in global climate modeling to improve our ability to make seasonal predictions of Atlantic hurricane activity.

As the region’s dry summer approaches, precipitation deficits pose a threat to livestock operators, farmers, and fish, and heighten the risk of wildfires.

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.

Climate models project dangerous combinations of heat and humidity by the end of the 21st century. New research says these extremes are already happening.

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

Cool conditions in Alaska and northern Canada related to a strong polar vortex were not enough to outweigh the extreme warmth across Europe and Asia in February 2020. Both the Northern Hemisphere and the globe as a whole had their second-warmest February on record.  

Much of the Southeast experienced extremely wet conditions last month, while almost all of California and parts of Oregon and Nevada were either much drier than average or record dry.

There’s more than just ENSO in the tropical climate neighborhood.  Our blogger discusses an Indian Ocean climate pattern that had an important impact on Australia’s catastrophic 2019 bushfire season.