June 8, 2022 was World Ocean Day. The global ocean covers roughly 70 percent of Earth’s surface and produces at least half of the world’s oxygen. It’s home to most of Earth’s biodiversity, and the main source of protein for more than a billion people.
A virtual workshop, “Heat + Housing + Health Equity Network” for the Southeastern U.S. (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi), will take place on June 23, 2022. It will be the first of a two-part initiative to develop a regional network of communities, practitioners, and researchers.
Great Lakes ice cover affects activities ranging from shipping to recreation. Accurate forecasts are critical, but forecast products have been spatially and temporally limited. The next generation of NOAA’s Great Lakes Operational Forecast System (GLOFS) aims to fill information gaps.
The chances that La Niña will last through summer are only slightly higher than the chances of a short dip into neutral before returning to La Niña by early winter. How will it affect the hurricane season?
Summer-like heat felt across much of the South during May. Drought conditions improve for some, yet remain across much of the West.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, CO2 levels were consistently around 280 ppm for almost 6,000 years of human civilization. Carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory reached 421 parts per million in May 2022.
Most models project that further warming will decrease the total number of Atlantic hurricanes, but increase the number of very strong storms.
Western Water Assessment has recently improved and updated its High-Impact Weather and Climate Events Database, a collection of significant weather and climate-related events in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.
Western Water Assessment (WWA) has just released the Utah Hazard Planning Tool, which provides resources about the historical incidence, current risk, and future projections of natural hazards in the state.