of the Northwest, southern Plains, Upper Midwest and Northeast. Alaska had the sixth-wettest July in the 98-year record. Much of the state received average to above-average precipitation during the mo ...

latitude. A widespread melting event on the Greenland Ice Sheet on August 14, 2021—the latest in the season on record—coincided with the first observed rainfall in the 33 year record at the Summit Sta ...

our level of certainty about ENSO. These models can take into account many aspects of the atmosphere and ocean at different locations simultaneously and then use equations of our physical system to re ...

Ph. D., NOAA chief scientist. "With a strengthening El Niño and more potential climate extremes in an already record-breaking year, we're lucky to have scientists like those at the Climate Prediction ...

come with disasters and emergencies, to be ready to protect themselves, and to remain resilient in the face of such threats. The strategy defines resilience as "the sustained ability of communities to ...

rainfall has led to landslides in Uganda and floods in Senegal. Meanwhile, the rainfall maximum in northern South America was below normal with negative anomalies, which is the opposite of what is typ ...

we could go into a magic weather machine and turn off all the other things that can push our atmosphere around, then we would see these MJO driven patterns much more clearly (no, we don't have one and ...

the climate outlook maps are not a forecast for the absolute temperature or precipitation amounts in August. Instead, they are the probability (percent chance) that monthly average temperature or prec ...

an ocean pH data set, which scientists use to study study how much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is being absorbed by the ocean. What are the practical implications of the report? This report tel ...

including most of the Mississippi River Basin. Forecasters with the National Water Center, in concert with NWS River Forecast Centers, predict moderate to major flooding along the Mississippi River fr ...