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- Department:July 9, 2021
June precipitation was average across the country, a balancing out of dryness in the West and wetness in the Lower Mississippi, Eastern Seaboard, and Great Lakes.
- Department:July 8, 2021
Neutral conditions remain across the Pacific but conditions look favorable enough for a return to La Niña this fall/winter that scientists have issued a La Niña watch.
- Department:July 2, 2021
The extreme heat and dryness in the U.S. West in June have set the stage for more of the same in July.
- Department:June 30, 2021
Guest blogger John Allen recaps tornado activity so far in 2021 and discusses the limits of using ENSO to predict seasonal tornado activity.
- Department:June 15, 2021
May 2021 global surface temperature was 1.46°F above the 20th-century average, tying with 2018 as the sixth-warmest May in the 142-year record.
- Department:June 10, 2021
The ENSO forecast favors neutral conditions through the fall, but there's more to it than that!
- Department:June 9, 2021
May 2021 was mild across much of the contiguous U.S., with dry conditions widespread across the West, the Northern Plains, the Ohio Valley, and the Mid-Atlantic.
- Department:June 8, 2021
Marine scientist Flo La Valle's life has taken her from the Philippines, to Rome, to Hawaii. A love for coastal ecosystems and the communities they support has stayed with her.
- Department:June 3, 2021
From algae growth and sea ice to tsunamis, moored ocean buoys are vital to understanding and predicting the ocean.
- Department:June 1, 2021
The highest chances for much warmer than average conditions are in the Great Basin and the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast.











