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Tom Di Liberto | April 7, 2015

With spring's arrival comes thoughts of severe weather and tornadoes. Except this year, tornadoes in March were well below normal, with little happening until the last week of the month.

New Maps & Data section on Climate.gov offers easy-to-understand maps and entry-level information on climate data

April 6, 2015

People who are interested in climate have a new source of maps and data on NOAA Climate. gov. The recently updated page at Climate. gov/maps-data offers easy-to-understand climate maps, a visual ... ...

With warming, plants are swallowing ponds in Alaskan Arctic

Michon Scott | April 6, 2015

In northern Alaska, ponds are shrinking and disappearing as the frozen ground beneath them thaws. The loss may have serious consequences for migratory birds and the subsistence hunters that depend on them.

Can ENSO forecasts help predict severe thunderstorm activity?

April 3, 2015

A potentially high-impact study sponsored by NOAA CPO's Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections (MAPP) program titled "Influence of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation on tornado and hail ... ...

The Chemistry of Atmospheric Brown Carbon

April 3, 2015

A team of scientists partially funded by CPO's Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, & Climate (AC4) program published a Chemical Reviews article on the chemistry of atmospheric "brown carbon,"-- the . ...

Predicting El Niño Then and Now

Michael McPhaden | April 3, 2015

Guest blogger Mike McPhaden describes what it was like making El Niño forecasts in the mid-1970s, compared with making them today.

What if it happened here?

U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit | March 31, 2015

An extreme precipitation event in 2008 cost one Upper Midwest town more than a million dollars in infrastructure repairs. Now, other municipalities can simulate how a similar event might affect them.

Climate & Your Comfy Clothes

Michon Scott | March 27, 2015

A drought in the Southeast in 2011 gave cotton growers and consumers a preview of what could become a more common scenario for the main ingredient of our most comfortable clothes.

Twin tropical cyclones in western Pacific

Tom Di Liberto | March 25, 2015

Uncommon atmospheric circumstances spawned a pair of tropical cyclones in the western Pacific—one on either side the equator, at nearly the same longitude, at nearly the same time. Why are twin cyclones more common during El Niño?

Déjà Vu: El Niño Take Two

Michelle L'Heureux | March 25, 2015

You're not the only one wondering if we will see El Niño grow or continue into this coming winter 2015. How useful are March winds and subsurface temperatures across the tropical Pacific Ocean in predicting winter El Niño or La Niña states?

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