Climatologist Nolan Doesken explained that drought conditions descended on southeastern Colorado in the autumn of 2010, with the driest conditions occurring in May and June of 2013. The worst-affected ...

is to learn about Eunice Newton Foote's foundational contribution to climate science - that CO2 retains more heat than other atmospheric gases. This is a very fun video for younger audiences, and can ...

the trade winds), were stronger than average, as were the west-to-east winds high up in the atmosphere. These signs, along with more rain than average over Indonesia and less in the central Pacific, t ...

wet air from southerly latitudes into Alaska. Because of the Earth's rotation, air tends to flow in a clockwise direction around high pressure zones and in a counter-clockwise direction around low pre ...

weather settled over Japan and the Korean Peninsula in January 2011, and for the first time since 1986, Japan experienced below-normal January temperatures. The map above shows differences from averag ...

94.7 inches, the highest on record and over six inches higher than the previous record set in 1982-83. Farther south near the agriculture-heavy San Joaquin Valley, a five-station average showed that t ...

that's really important to us is improving sub-seasonal to seasonal climate forecasting. In January, our governor issued a drought emergency proclamation, and one of the items in that emergency procla ...

points for no more than 25 liters (7 gallons) per person per day. When Climate. gov last checked in, Day Zero was scheduled for early May 2018, but Day Zero now been deferred to 2019. One factor contr ...

gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico. Next to it is Grand Isle, the last inhabited barrier island in Louisiana. Various beach restoration projects over the years have helped build up and maintain Grand ...

s August 4 report. The animated gif at right shows the development of severe to extreme drought in three areas between March 1 and August 2: the High Plains region of North and South Dakota, southeast ...