Kidding. Here's why the polar vortex may also cause you to take off your sweater sometimes.
A blog post on the Blob. Blob, Blob, Blob. But here's why you shouldn't call it the Blob.
New research weighs in on a popular debate about whether reduced Arctic sea ice is causing extreme mid-latitude winters. Their result? Blame the atmosphere, not the ice.
The tropical Pacific Ocean may be ENSO-neutral, but there are still plenty of climate-and-weather topics to talk about.
Why did atmospheric El Niño conditions fail to develop this past fall? Our blogger tries to unravel the mystery of the missing central Pacific rainfall.
Want to forecast both weather and climate? First this means understanding the faster and slower moving features of our atmosphere, ocean, and land.
In this week's ENSO blog, Tom DiLiberto gets all judgy over the 2017-2018 Winter Outlook—using science of course.
You wouldn't know it to look at the snow falling in the Mid-Atlantic, but according to meteorological convention, winter ended in February. In today’s "Beyond the Data" post, we’ll pull some fun regional trivia out of the national climate summary for February/winter. Bonus: there’s at least one lesson about the climate system in each nugget.
How this winter's temperature swings may have been partially driven by the Madden Julian Oscillation or MJO.
Our ENSO blogger sits down with Ken Takahashi, an ENSO forecaster from Peru, to gab about the recent coastal El Niño and what might be coming up next.