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Department:October 16, 2020September 2020 was the hottest September on record for the globe, continuing a sweltering year.
Department:October 1, 2020The latest maps from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center show where October 2020 is forecast to be much hotter and drier than average in the U.S. It's not a great outlook for the wildfire-affected West.
Department:September 24, 2020Guest blogger Marybeth Arcodia explains her latest research into how the Madden-Julian Oscillation and ENSO sometimes enhance each other's influence on U.S. precipitation and other times cancel each other out.
Department:September 17, 2020A new NOAA-funded index scores U.S. states' vulnerability to drought, based on a combination of sensitivity, exposure, and their ability to adapt.
Department:September 15, 2020August 2020 was the second-hottest August on record, and it ended the hottest summer on record for the Northern Hemisphere.
Department:September 10, 2020Extreme heat in the U.S. Southwest carried August 2020 into the record books as the country’s third-warmest August in the 126-year record. Despite heavy rain from landfalling tropical cyclones, national average precipitation was in the driest third of the record.
Department:September 1, 2020The September 2020 temperature and precipitation outlook favors a warmer- and drier-than-average September across the western United States, and a wetter-than-average month across the south-central Plains and much of the East.
Department:August 26, 2020Hundreds of wildfires burned through over one million acres of land in California in less than two weeks in August. The resulting smoke has not only worsened air quality across the state but spread across the country.
Department:August 20, 2020Wildfires across Colorado during summer 2020 has led to the shutdown of the major thoroughfare across the state and billowed smoke for hundreds of miles.
Department:August 17, 2020July 2020 was the second-warmest July on record for the globe, as 2020 continues its scorching path to one of the hottest years on record.
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