However, the spring predictability barrier, together with the still somewhat-La Niña-ish atmosphere and the lack of strong physical signs such as a large amount of warmer-than-average subsurface water ...

trillion. During 2018, the U. S. experienced a very active year of weather and climate disasters. In total, the U. S. was impacted by 14 separate billion-dollar disaster events: two tropical cyclones, ...

upper ocean, making it more sensitive to wind forcing. Thus, the coupling of the ocean and atmosphere becomes stronger, making the swings between El Niño and La Niña more extreme. There are caveats th ...

to have expanded just a little and cooled off a bit further in July. A persistent cool spot in that area is one of the criteria that climate experts use to monitor and predict La Niña—the cool phase o ...

electricity. Little rainfall means less water streams into the Zambezi River Water levels in the Kariba Dam along the Zambezi River fell to only 12% of capacity in January according to Reuters, reduci ...

points of view: from the side (left) and from above (right). Viewed from the side, Earth's atmosphere looks like a halo around the flat circle of the Earth. The image of this "halo" shows the density ...

conditions look at the moment. Unfortunately, this doesn't bode well for the short rains season in East Africa. It isn't necessarily a one-to-one relationship that La Niña conditions or even just slig ...

this year, it's often too late for farmers." Farmers can't just start their planting later; even in a good water year, streamflows decline significantly in summer as the snowpack melts, drawing a firm ...

carbon dioxide than Earth's natural physical and biological processes can remove from the atmosphere. Fundamental to any attempts to understand, slow, or reverse the build up of atmospheric carbon dio ...

in boreal North America since 1975. But human-caused climate change has increased wildfire danger in boreal forests of North America by raising surface air temperatures, dropping relative humidity, de ...