average, ranking in the warmest third of winters on record. Precipitation-wise, February 2021 was in the middle third of the historical record, with much wetter than average conditions along the mid-A ...

Mississippi Valleys, and the Southeast. The dry outcome was driven by below-average precipitation in the Pacific Northwest and well below average precipitation across swaths of the Midwest, Southern P ...

experienced its driest January-May on record. * As of May 31, the largest fire on record in New Mexico, the Hermits Peak Fire, had consumed more than 315,000 acres and was 50 percent contained. Across ...

e.g., when a little league baseball team leads by 10 runs after 5 innings. Of course, the atmosphere and oceans observe no such mercy rule, but is it too early to declare a victor? Rather than calling ...

of above-average activity. The low chance of El Niño (which tends to suppress hurricane activity in the Atlantic) was an important component in this outlook. Other factors, such as predicted warmer-th ...

000 years to determine climatic conditions, trends, and relevance to today's climate. Current CO2 levels are reported as 373 parts per million (ppm) currently and need to be updated to approximately ...

precipitation total for the contiguous U. S. was 2.26 inches, 0.25 inch below average, and ranked in the driest third of the 128-year period of record. The year-to-date precipitation total was 5.66 in ...

Much of the country received more than 100 percent of their average precipitation, and in many states, precipitation totals were much higher than average. Overall, the month ranked ninth-wettest Octob ...

in winter precipitation, which includes both rain and snow. The map shows the percent difference in normal winter precipitation in the new normal versus the old normals. The Northern Plains and Upper ...

a significantly smaller geographic impact; for these four hazards, probability indexes were used in conjunction with historical patterns to explain possible changes to Florida's long-term weather. Soc ...