this question. Some say yes, that all weather events are now occurring in a warmer and wetter atmosphere, and so everything that happens—all weather events, extreme or otherwise—are being influenced b ...

drought can lead to famine and can worsen civil conflict. Adapted from the State of the Climate in 2017, this map shows global drought patterns in 2017 using an analysis called the self-calibrated Pal ...

coldest dates near the Rockies and Cascades/Sierra Nevada often correspond to stations located in deep valleys where calm winds and snow cover cause temperatures to become colder than nearby higher gr ...

Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), these maps show potential hurricane-caused inundation in Miami-Dade County, Florida; and Charleston, South Carolina. The maps show projected flooding from hu ...

zone to a 5-year average below 5,000 square kilometers (about 1,900 square miles.) Participants in the federal-state-tribal task force have successfully tested a wide range of individual strategies to ...

Spinrad shared his views today on the historic opportunity confronting world leaders gathered in Glasgow for COP26. Dr. Spinrad will represent NOAA as a member of the U. S. delegation, which includes ...

Niña winter (2010) is currently the sixteenth-warmest October on record, 0.22°C cooler than 2020. In a way, this near-record warmth during La Niña isn't terribly surprising because even though La Niña ...

of each forecast together equal 100%. (2) This links to a post describing the Winter Outlook made in October for the 2020-21 winter. This post, though, is verifying against the Winter Outlook made in ...

On the rainfall front, July tilted toward the wet end of the U. S. climate spectrum, ranking in the wettest third of the 126-year record. Nationally averaged precipitation across the contiguous United ...

system that can provide up to 10 percent of the power required to operate the facility, reducing CO2 emissions by 13.72 metric tons annually. * A smaller 3.25 kW solar photovoltaic system was install ...