these cyclones tend to get their act together during the transitional seasons of spring and fall in the North Indian Ocean. Outside of these transitional seasons, the India Ocean is dominated by the s ...

of July. The atmospheric setup. The jet stream, an area of fast moving winds high up in the atmosphere (four to eight miles), became incredibly wavy during the heat wave, forming what is known as an " ...

brings more precipitation, benefits to skiers, farmers, and cities may be offset by a warmer atmosphere pulling more moisture out of the state's snowpacks, soils, crops, and other plants. Rising tempe ...

precipitation totals were near the long-term average. According to the Voice of America, flooding in the region raised authorities' concerns about the potential for the Zambezi River to overflow a dam ...

corals can't recover. As fossil fuel burning releases more carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere, more of that carbon dioxide dissolves in the world ocean, changing the ocean's chemistry and making i ...

record-driest September, while Arizona ranked fifth driest and California sixth driest on record. In total, seven states in the Northeast, Southwest and northern Plains had their tenth driest, or drie ...

hundreds of wildfires have engulfed California, burning through over a million acres of land in little over a week. Over a hundred thousand people have been evacuated as the fires continue to burn. Th ...

ultimate strength was mostly underestimated, meaning that the El Niños ended up becoming stronger in the winter than the majority of model ensembles predicted in April. So, while bust potential is a r ...

on the East Coast. The global ocean has soaked up one third of human-caused carbon dioxide ( CO2) emissions since the start of the Industrial Era, increasing the CO2 and acidity of seawater. Increased ...

the second year in a row, NOAA scientists observed a record annual increase in atmospheric levels of methane, a powerful, heat-trapping greenhouse gas that's the second biggest contributor to human-ca ...