Uncommonly large wildfires for so late in the season devastated parts of southern California, especially in areas around Los Angeles.

Now in its sixth year, a NOAA-led report published by the American Meteorological Society provides the results of more than two dozen studies of various extreme weather and climate events in 2016 and the role global warming did or didn't play in them.  

La Nina conditions are solidly in place, and are expected to affect global weather through the winter.

Published : . May 2015. This document guides federal land managers in the effective and efficient use of available resources and engaging public and private partnerships in taking act ...

"Flash drought" has become a popular term in the media, but the debate of what a flash drought really is has caused confusion that affects scientists' ability to detect their onset, monitor their ... ...

In many parts of North America, a fluctuating air-pressure pattern that enhances or blocks the storm-steering jet stream, called the Arctic Oscillation (AO), explains more variability in the ... ...

Spring and summer temperatures in the Arctic were cooler in 2017 than they have been in many years this decade, but the annual average surface temperature was still the second highest on record.

Very old ice—thick, strong, and more melt-resistant—has nearly vanished in the Arctic. In March 2017, it made up less than 1 percent of the ice pack. 

Since 1982, the rate of surface warming in some Arctic seas  at the height of summer is more than quadruple the rate of warming in the global ocean.  

Groundfish stocks in the Eastern Bering Sea are healthy at present, but a recent string of very warm summers, preceded by winters with sparse sea ice, led NOAA biologists to recommend lower catch limits for pollock—the nation's largest commercial fishery.