Based on preliminary information, this post originally stated that the strong El Niño described in our previous (December) update continued in January; however, NOAA's official ENSO update that consid ...

D. (2011). Recent warming by latitude associated with increased length of ragweed pollen season in central North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(10), 4248-4251. doi:10.10 ...

end of hurricane season—already broken the record for the most billion-dollar weather disasters in a single calendar year. Economic losses from the 10 weather-related disasters in 2011 had already hit ...

140,000 people in Bangladesh. And if you are thinking these sorts of things cannot happen today, in 2008, Cyclone Nargis came ashore along the Irrawadday River Delta in Myanmar as a Category 4 storm w ...

match the longest such streak since the global temperature record reaches statistical adulthood in the early 1900s. That run occurred from January-October 1944. As far as "longest streaks" go, this o ...

Vulnerability Assessment takes a look at most of the exploited fisheries and shellfish species in the Northeast region. Seventy-nine species were included and the assessment will develop a relative vu ...

of the country. A wetter than average month is favored for the Gulf and East Coast and an area in the southwestern/central United States. (Visit the Climate Prediction Center's website for maps that i ...

warm temperatures across much of the United States in September and October 2016 have conspired with much lower than average precipitation in parts of the country to bring (or sustain) severe drought ...

to develop. Areas where drought is already present and likely to persist or worsen are shown in brown—not a hopeful outlook for California or southeastern Colorado. Tan areas show where drought condit ...

that blow across the tropical Pacific Ocean are weaker than usual and sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific become warmer than usual. An outcome of warmer waters is increased thu ...