Flood risk in Upper Midwest, Midwest and Southeast.
It was the seventh-warmest February on record going back to 1880, and it is virtually certain 2022 will wind up one of the ten warmest years on record, despite the cooling influence of La Niña.
It's too soon to tell whether this winter's double-dip La Niña will become next winter's three-bean salad. But our blogger tells us what's on the menu this spring.
Below-average precipitation across the West led to an expansion of drought.
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.
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It was the sixth-warmest year on record for planet Earth.
Hop in as our ENSO blogger takes you on a road trip through the February 2022 ENSO forecast.
The month brought a warm West and a cold East. Amid widespread dryness, wetter-than-average conditions occurred in Colorado, the Ohio Valley, and the Mid-Atlantic.
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.