In the midst of the mega snowstorm bearing down on the East, NCEI's Deke Arndt looks longingly back at December's warmth in his latest Beyond the Data blog. 

A strong El Niño continued during December 2015 with well above average sea surface temperatures across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, according to NOAA Climate Prediction Center’s monthly El Niño advisory update.

A new OAR/Climate Program Office (CPO) Report, summarizing key outcomes of the May 2015 NOAA Climate Reanalysis Task Force Technical Workshop held at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate ... ...

Global surface temperature was record warm in 2015, moving ahead of the record set just last year by 0.29°F—the largest margin by which one year has ever beaten another since official records began in 1880.

New research funded by CPO's Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections Program focuses on drought in the central U. S./Great Plains region and evaluates why summer droughts occur in the ... ...

Answers to some of the questions that readers frequently ask NOAA experts about El Niño and La Niña.

Summary: Tribal, First Nation, and Alaska Native communities—along with federal, academic, non-profit, and other partners—use this web-based clearinghouse to access a broad range of climate resources.

OAR's Craig Mclean signed an Implementing Arrangement with Dr. Andi Sakya, Director-General of Indonesia's Badan, Meteorologi, Klimatologi, Don Geofisika (BMKG) Weather-Climate Service on Sunday, ... ...

The tropical Pacific is an exciting place these days. What’s been going on recently?

How can climate extremes affect our nation’s most popular alcoholic beverage?