had record warm overnight lows. The graph below shows January-July temperature extremes in a different way: the bars represent the percent of the country experiencing extremely warm or cold average ma ...

Madden Julian Oscillation, as well as the random nature of weather, can also play a large part in how a winter turns out. For the latest United States winter forecast for temperature and precipitation ...

decade, with a bloom severity index score between 8.1-9.5, on a scale from 0-10. "Unfortunately, in early August, the bloom was already much worse than last year," says NOAA's Rick Stumpf, the lead ec ...

the Northern Rockies states of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah—the percent of the country in some level of drought increased marginally to 46.6 percent of the contiguous U. S. ...

Greenstreets Program. They're also raising the pumps at the Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant in response to sea level rise projections. In addition, the MTA has raised some of the subway grates and ...

than it used to and less heating degree-days. To calculate the heating and cooling degree-days in the U. S., once we know the daily average temperature for a location, we subtract it from 65˚F. For ex ...

more going on. The North Slope warming is largely driven by the retreat of sea ice. Seasonal ice in neighboring waters of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas is generally arriving later and leaving earlier, ...

snowpack. The Sierra Nevada snowpack is particularly low this spring, due to the shortfall in precipitation and the fact that some of the heaviest precipitation, when it did occur, was in a warm air m ...

Halloween," CNN Money quipped in October 2011. The advice wasn't unfounded. Following a drought in the United States' peanut-growing country, peanut butter prices had spiked. Early in 2011, the consum ...

increased for the nation as a whole, leading to more severe flooding in some regions.1 As the atmosphere warms, its ability to hold water vapor increases, which generates more frequent, severe, and he ...