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El Niño is the 800-pound gorilla for the winter climate in the U.S., but in summer, it's more like a 6-pound Chihuahua.

The Southeastern U. S. experiences periodic droughts along with landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) from the Atlantic, andit is currently thought that these TCs might help alleviate droughts in this . ...

The timing and duration of the active season for tropical cyclones (TCs) varies throughout the world, and the seasonality of TCs could be impacted as greenhouse gas concentrations increase and our ... ...

The timing and duration of the active season for tropical cyclones (TCs) varies throughout the world, and the seasonality of TCs could be impacted as greenhouse gas concentrations increase and our ... ...

Community groups are working to establish a connected ring of conservation land around St. Louis, Missouri. They're also incorporating economic data with flood models to help them target areas that will also provide flood protection.

A post for map geeks. How to turn an animation of a year's worth of daily rain maps into a single picture.

Deke Arndt, chief of the Monitoring Branch at the National Centers for Environmental Information, kicks off a new blog that will cover how climate records are collected and updated, how we know what we know about the climate, and how we can use climate information to make our communities more resilient.

A record-setting day of rain in Oklahoma City caused widespread flooding in early May 2015. How rare was the event?

From soybeans and sunflowers in North Dakota to cotton and winter wheat in Texas, large stretches of croplands in the U.S. Great Plains rely exclusively on rain. Those croplands are likely to face longer dry spells by mid-century.

Some of the chemicals that replaced ozone-harming CFCs are long-lived greenhouse gases. At NOAA's lab in Boulder, Colorado, chemist Steve Montzka leads the effort to monitor the concentration of CFC-substitutes and their potential impact on global warming.