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Department:September 23, 2021The latest IPCC report on the Physical Science Basis of climate change covers pretty much everything you can think of, including ENSO. So what were its conclusions? Our ENSO Bloggers walk us through the reports conclusions and what they mean.
Department:September 23, 2021By 2030, the combination of extreme heat and atmospheric dryness that made the ongoing drought so extreme is likely to return more than once a decade. Such record-low precipitation, however, is likely to remain rare.
Department:August 9, 2021Much of the U.S. Southwest is near-desert. What does drought even mean in a place like that?
Department:August 24, 2021In mid-August 2021, a late-summer heatwave struck Greenland, causing widespread melt on the ice sheet and rain at the summit.
Department:August 3, 2021The August 2021 Climate outlook favors a wetter-than-average month across the Southwest and Southeast and above-average temperatures across much of the contiguous U.S..
Department:July 20, 2021A heatwave of the intensity of the June event in the Pacific Northwest would have been virtually impossible without global warming. But that doesn't mean such events will become common any time soon.
Department:July 9, 2021June precipitation was average across the country, a balancing out of dryness in the West and wetness in the Lower Mississippi, Eastern Seaboard, and Great Lakes.
Department:July 2, 2021The extreme heat and dryness in the U.S. West in June have set the stage for more of the same in July.
Department:June 30, 2021Guest blogger John Allen recaps tornado activity so far in 2021 and discusses the limits of using ENSO to predict seasonal tornado activity.
Department:June 30, 2021From Portland, Oregon, to Vancouver, Canada, the heat didn't just break records; it buried them.
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