and the rest of the world—the best data I had on hand only covers the continental United States. In coastal northern California, a strong El Niño year averages about 40 rainy days per winter (December ...

my colleague and one of the main contributors to this blog―took on the role of report editor in 2009, and I joined him in 2010, we have learned a lot of about the challenges and the value of putting t ...

The Southern Plains drought lasted more than four years before coming to an end very quickly in the spring of 2015. There is an old adage that big droughts end in big floods, and that was the case in ...

houses nearly 2300 unique oral histories as part of 118 distinct collections, including Women in Alaska Fisheries - oral history project focused on Native Alaska women participating in commercial and ...

D3-D4) drought decreased from 37 to 24 percent from April 21 to 28 due to heavy rainfall in the western and central parts of the state. Recent rains also improved conditions in Texas, helping water su ...

kept the snow falling fast and furious. On March 15, the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center in Seattle, Washington, reported that Mount Baker — the third-highest mountain in Washington State — had ...

Key Points:. * Warmer and generally wetter conditions coupled with elevated atmospheric CO2 will impact seasonal water availability, and plant phenology and physiological responses. * Wildfire, patho ...

more likely in some locations than others. Check maps that show the average number of tornadoes in each of the United States over a year or by month, based on tornado observations from 1991-2010. Chec ...

In 2008, however, a prolonged drought threw everything in the Russian River Valley off balance. In the midst of this drought, biologists discovered dead Coho salmon and steelhead trout in a tributary ...

on events from the past year to understand where we have been and where we might be going. In this Beyond the Data blog post, we will dig deeper into the Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent during t ...