Forest System Planning Rule directed the USDA Forest Service to begin considering climate change in their land management plans, Forest Service personnel turned to NOAA's Climate Explorer tool to get ...

down for a short time, but current Arctic sea ice extent is hovering just above levels seen in 2007, the lowest year since the satellite records began in 1979. July 2011 sea ice extent was the lowest ...

average. Rainfall totals over these two days shattered the previous monthly record of 1.29 inches in 1865. From July 18-20, nearly 4 inches of rain fell in the mountains around Los Angeles. Desert reg ...

colors), with amounts tapering off in the west and north. Despite the heavier rainfall amounts in the east, it was the western part of the country—where drought conditions were more severe in precedin ...

feature of the 2016 climate was the remarkable persistence of the mild (for Alaska) weather. In a more typical year, we'd expect there to be warmer than average days and weeks and periods of colder th ...

of the Arctic Report Card at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans. Now in its 12th year, the Arctic Report Card is a NOAA-led, peer-reviewed report that brings together the work ...

According to EM-DAT, the International Disaster Database, this heat wave is the fifth deadliest in world history. The most vulnerable populations have been the elderly, the young, and those who work o ...

why the areas for well-above- or well-below-average temperature or precipitation this winter in the updated outlook are smaller than what was issued back in October. Still, much of the western and sou ...

The truth is that during El Niño years you have winners and losers. I am especially interested in the agricultural sector and food security issues--for example, in an El Niño year you have an increase ...

the height of this summer's extreme drought, a part of the Brazos River ran dry in Knox County, Texas. In some parts of the state, public officials and utilities adjusted water use rules and urged res ...