The March 2022 climate outlook favors a warmer-than-average month for the eastern/south-central US, a cooler-than-average month for the western/north-central US, and a wetter-than-average month for the Great Lakes.
The February 2022 climate outlook favors warmer-than-average temperatures across the southern and eastern U.S., with cooler and wetter conditions favored across the north. Out West, a drier-than-average month is forecast.
As we enter our second La Niña winter in a row, our blogger explains what we know about the chances for a three-peat. (TL;DR: possible, but not statistically likely.)
The December 2021 climate outlook favors a warmer-than-average end to 2021 for much of the country, with odds tilted towards a drier-than-average December for the Southeast
If ENSO is a romantic comedy, our ocean-atmosphere couple is in an on-again phase, and they're expected to stay together through the winter.
Why doesn't the climate behave like we expect? The answer often lies in the internal variability of our atmosphere. Our ENSO Blogger explains exactly what that is.
La Niña conditions have returned to the tropical Pacific. Our blogger gives you the details.
Costly and inconvenient, high-tide flooding of coastal communities is on the rise. Thanks to higher water levels from El Niño and sea level rise, the number of high-tide flood days in 2018 is projected to be 60% higher this year than would have been common around 2000. Find out what's predicted for your city in this interactive map.
Our guest blogger explains how our food system is being controlled by ENSO. Also, why La Nina events are particularly troublesome.
The latest IPCC report on the Physical Science Basis of climate change covers pretty much everything you can think of, including ENSO. So what were its conclusions? Our ENSO Bloggers walk us through the report's conclusions and what they mean.