resulting in Malaysia government officials declaring the flooding the worst in decades. Rains in the Aceh province of Indonesia have displaced more than 120,000 people. It was amidst these thunderstor ...

the greatest chance of being colder than average this winter. El Niño: Where's the confidence? In two of my earliest posts for the ENSO Blog, I wrote about the relationship between El Niño and winter ...

to lose ice at increasing rates: accelerating from 53 ± 29 gigatons to 159 ± 26 gigatons per year in West Antarctica over the period, and from 7 ± 13 gigatons to 33 ± 16 gigatons per year on the Antar ...

was drier still, with many areas reporting less than 5% of their normal rainfall. Some locations in the northern part of the state received no measurable precipitation all month, setting local records ...

fire retardant as it follows a U. S. Department of Agriculture plane serving as a guide. Deployed in Scurry County, Texas, in April 2011, the planes work in tandem to ensure that fire retardant is dro ...

it a central role in stabilizing Earth's climate system. Yearly and even decades-long variations in ocean heat content occur due to natural climate patterns like El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscill ...

2014. B. R. Scanlon et al., (2012). Groundwater depletion and sustainability of irrigation in the US High Plains and Central Valley. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United State ...

risk of major flooding this spring, while moderate flooding is possible over southern Idaho in the Snake River basin, according to NOAA's Spring Outlook released today. California, which saw extensive ...

today's temperature fits into your location's climate history. About the data. To be included in this analysis, a station had to have at least a 30-year climate history spanning or overlapping the per ...

if this winter was an average one for Alaska, it followed a record-shattering year for the state. In 2016, many Alaskan communities recorded their highest average temperatures ever: including the trad ...