Summary: Health departments can consult this document for guidance on conducting climate and health vulnerability assessments.

Summary: Decision makers can use this index—with an online mapping feature and downloadable data—to identify communities that may need support in preparing for hazards or recovering from disaster.

The extreme atmospheric pressure pattern that favored record-breaking snow totals across parts of the U.S. East left Alaskans asking, “Where’s winter?”  

Summary: Regional conservation managers in the Northeast United States can view, retrieve, and perform analyses on spatial information as they consider how to meet specific conservation goals.

Summary: A regional conservation partnership in Massachusetts needed to update their approach to evaluating land acquisitions. Adding the complexity of climate change to their map helped resolve their vision.

Summary: This compilation of user-contributed data resources can help natural and cultural resource managers research and plan responses to the challenges of climate change in the Pacific Northwest.

Mike Halpert from the Climate Prediction Center grades the winter forecast. Temperature outlooks fared quite well, but precipitation forecasts were not that great. The mediocre precipitation scores were partly because forecasts were counting on tropical atmospheric responses to El Niño, which didn’t emerge until late in the season.

Moderate flooding in the coastal Northeast and temperatures in the upper third of the historical record for the West are key predictions from NOAA's 2015 Spring Climate Outlook.

The United States has plenty of warming wiggle room before it gets too warm to snow, and a wetter atmosphere may boost snow totals for some storms.  

A map of snow depth across Alaska on March 9 shows the reason for the re-route of the historic sled dog race.