News & Features

No surprise, 2015 sets new global temperature record

Rebecca Lindsey | January 19, 2016

Global surface temperature was record warm in 2015, moving ahead of the record set just last year by 0.29°F—the largest margin by which one year has ever beaten another since official records began in 1880.

Two new MAPP-funded studies provide new insight into drought understanding and prediction in the Central U. S.

January 18, 2016

New research funded by CPO's Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections Program focuses on drought in the central U. S./Great Plains region and evaluates why summer droughts occur in the ... ...

El Niño and La Niña: Frequently asked questions

Climate.gov Staff | January 18, 2016

Answers to some of the questions that readers frequently ask NOAA experts about El Niño and La Niña.

U. S.-Indonesia Collaboration on Ocean-Climate Observations and Climate Services Support

January 14, 2016

OAR's Craig Mclean signed an Implementing Arrangement with Dr. Andi Sakya, Director-General of Indonesia's Badan, Meteorologi, Klimatologi, Don Geofisika (BMKG) Weather-Climate Service on Sunday, ... ...

January El Niño update: It's got a lot going on

Emily Becker | January 14, 2016

The tropical Pacific is an exciting place these days. What’s been going on recently?

Climate & Beer

Caitlyn Kennedy | January 13, 2016

How can climate extremes affect our nation’s most popular alcoholic beverage?

Assessing the Global Warming Potential of Human Settlement Expansion

January 8, 2016

Discussions of the anthropogenic contribution to climate change often focus on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion, but these emissions are not the only anthropogenic forcing. ...