and technology. Does not provide enough explanation about the IPCC scenario that produces this CO2 increase, and not enough information is provided on how the model arrives at its conclusions. It's s ...

the climate outlook maps are not a forecast for the absolute temperature or precipitation amounts in July. Instead, they are the probability (percent chance) that July temperatures or precipitation wi ...

January-December 2020 compared to the 1981-2010 average, with areas that were warmer than average in red and areas that were cooler than average in blue. The final frame of the animation shows the ove ...

record for the highest monthly sea surface temperature anomaly (+1.78°F or +0.99°C) of any month in NOAA's 174-year record. * South America had a record-breaking July, with its highest monthly tempera ...

is that global average temperature during recent La Niña years is warmer than for El Niño years in earlier decades! In fact, the La Niña year of 2020 tied 2016—a year that started with a major El Niño ...

models project how different levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are likely to affect global or regional climate patterns, but not local ones. To evaluate the water s ...

It turns out the statistical relationship between the May subsurface temperature anomaly in the east-central Pacific and the October-December Oceanic Niño Index (the three-month-average temperature an ...

April precipitation for the contiguous U. S. was 2.58 inches, 0.06 inch above average, ranking in the middle third of the historical record. Precipitation was above average across portions of the Nort ...

index tracks one of the signs of El Niño and La Niña: warming or cooling of surface waters in a key location of the tropical Pacific Ocean. ...

below-average precipitation are across southern Florida, western Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. In contrast, a swath of the northern United States from the Great Lakes through the Tennessee Valley i ...