I cannot add much that wasn't already expertly written last year by resident Okie, Deke Arndt, in his Beyond the Data post specifically on prairie fires in spring. A warm winter combined with recent w ...

of the mountain range with less area at high elevations are more vulnerable to snowpack losses in a warming climate, meaning the northern Sierra Nevada—especially the expansive Northwest subregion—may ...

of the Climate. What is the Difference Between Weather and Climate. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Is the Breathing of the World's Ocean Choking Marine Life? Limiting the Magnitud ...

to continue and expand according to NOAA's U. S. Spring Outlook released today. Drier conditions in the Southwest U. S. associated with La Niña and the failed 2020 summer monsoon have been contributin ...

season, but as of October 16, the layer of hurricane-friendly water was still plenty deep in the western Atlantic Ocean basin, especially in the Caribbean Sea. On average, water temperature needs to b ...

scientists will take to the streets during the hottest days this summer to map hot spots in ten different U. S. cities. The campaign is part of a NOAA-funded project to map places where buildings, asp ...

Neutral means neither El Niño nor La Niña conditions are present in both the ocean and the atmosphere. Sometimes "neutral" genuinely means that conditions in the ocean and the atmosphere are near aver ...

Luckily enough, the data used to compile the national reports originate from weather stations in the Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-D) dataset. Every day, stations around the worl ...

of the same features as before, with a few additions (elevated chances for warmth and wetness in the East, dryness in Alaska's interior and the Great Lakes) and subtractions (the elevated chances for ...

that helps users see the climate conditions that underlie droughts, storms, floods, and changes in streamflow. The video below provides a virtual tour of the NOAA-funded WestMap tool and its capabilit ...