chances are increasing that El Niño (warmer-than-average) conditions will emerge beginning in July-September 2012. In addition to influencing seasonal climate outcomes in the United States, El Niño is ...

about seasonal climate outlooks in terms of "odds," "chances," or "probabilities"—not guarantees. In the latest ENSO blog post, Halpert explains how the weak El Niño predicted for the 2018-19 winter f ...

of natural selection that explains adaptation as a response to dramatically increased variability in the environment. When climate and other aspects of the environment vary dramatically, it can really ...

the National Weather Service's network of Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) stations, numbering in the thousands; a smaller network of "first order" stations maintained by professionals in the Natio ...

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 ...

causing bleaching again. [05:12. Video shows a color-coded map of the seasonal bleaching outlook in the Caribbean and Western Atlantic Ocean for August-November 2010. Much of the southern Caribbean an ...

Outlook . NOAA NWS Press Release. According to NOAA's Spring Outlook released today, rivers in half of the continental United States are at minor or moderate risk of exceeding flood levels this sprin ...

been a damaging one across the Pacific Northwest, western Canada, and Alaska in June and July. In the far north, Alaska's 2015 wildfire season tally is already over 700 fires, ranking it ninth in hist ...

of the last 14 summers. As the graph belows the maps shows, this change translated into increases in population-weighted cooling degree days compared to average, which resulted in increased air condit ...

Mantua projects that the number and duration of thermal roadblocks and potential death zones in Washington's salmon rivers and streams will increase significantly within the next 70 years as greenhous ...