Extreme Events

2016 eastern Pacific hurricane season makes up for lost time

August 12, 2016

New Eastern Hemisphere heat record? The detective work behind world record weather

July 29, 2016

2015 State of the Climate: El Niño came, saw, and conquered

Natural Climate Patterns August 2, 2016

A record-smashing hurricane season in the central North Pacific. Water rationing in Puerto Rico. The biggest one-year jump in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. These and more of 2015's extreme events had one thing in common: El Niño.

'Thousand-year' downpour led to deadly West Virginia floods

July 8, 2016

Scorching heat bakes the Southwest in mid-June 2016 - Part two

June 29, 2016

Scorching heat bakes the Southwest in mid-June 2016

June 22, 2016

Atmospheric ‘Groundhog Day’ behind flooding in France and Germany

June 21, 2016

Historically speaking, where are the summer “hot spots” for severe weather in the U.S.?

June 13, 2016

Will the Great Barrier Reef recover?

May 26, 2016

April 2016 snow cover did no favors for Fort McMurray fire

May 18, 2016