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- Department:January 20, 2021
New website features more interactive content and easy-to-understand graphics describing current and predicted drought conditions.
- Department:January 15, 2021
Despite the influence of La Niña, December 2020 was the eighth-hottest December on record helping 2020 become the second-hottest year on record.
- Department:January 13, 2021
Nationwide warmth was accompanied by extreme precipitation differences: dry conditions in the West and wet conditions in much of the East.
- Department:January 4, 2021
January 2021 is favored to be wetter and warmer than average for much of the country.
- Department:December 16, 2020
Por una gran mayoría, los científicos del clima están de acuerdo en que la temperatura global promedio hoy en día es más cálida que en la época preindustrial, y que la actividad humana es el principal factor contribuyente.
- Department:December 15, 2020
November 2020 was the second-warmest November on record, which increases 2020's chance of becoming the warmest year on record to over 50%.
- Department:December 10, 2020
La Niña's here through winter, but chances for ENSO to transition to neutral by spring are rising.
- Department:December 9, 2020
The contiguous United States was warmer than average virtually coast to coast in November 2020, and much of the country was also drier than average.
- Department:December 4, 2020
Unusually big blooms of tiny ocean plants occurred in the Arctic this past summer, linked to early summer retreat of sea ice.
- Department:December 8, 2020
Despite a few cold spots, it was the the second-warmest year on record Arctic wide. Since 2000, Arctic temperatures have been more than twice as far above average as the planet as a whole.