Extreme Events

Since 2000, the intensity and size of Western U.S. droughts have been dominated by heat, not lack of precipitation

Climate Change & Global Warming November 25, 2024

Heat-driven drying is playing a larger role than low precipitation in 21st-century Western droughts.

Unusual fire risk across the Northeast in fall of 2024

November 21, 2024

'Drought's Edge Illuminated' from the Art x Climate Gallery

Climate Impacts November 15, 2024

Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) includes an Art × Climate gallery. This image of an oil painting by Jon Bradham captures both the beauty of Lake Mead and the water challenges facing the West.

Drought expands in the East following exceptionally dry October

November 7, 2024

Hurricane Helene’s extreme rainfall and catastrophic inland flooding

November 7, 2024

'In the Eye of the Storm' from the Art x Climate Gallery

Climate Impacts October 25, 2024

Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment includes an Art × Climate gallery. This work by Simona Clausnitzer mirrors the devastating, lingering impacts of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico.

'Where there's smoke' from the Art x Climate Gallery

Climate Change & Global Warming October 11, 2024

Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) includes an Art × Climate gallery. This work by Michele Colburn was influenced by the 2021 fire season in California.

2024 Antarctic sea ice winter maximum second lowest on record

October 8, 2024

Hurricane Milton rapidly intensifies into Category 5 hurricane, becoming the Gulf's strongest late-season storm on record

October 8, 2024

Heat wave in Southern California and the Southwest in early September 2024

September 13, 2024