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.
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A marine heatwave has spread across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean with temperatures ranging between one and three degrees Celsius (~2-4.5˚F) above average. Ocean temperatures around south Florida are the warmest on record for the month of July (dating back to 1981).
Hurricanes often feature small-scale clouds characterized by finger-like appearances pointing toward the hurricane eye. New research offers clues about how they form.
During early summer 2020, the western North Pacific remained in an almost quiet state, and the tropical cyclone frequency sank to the lowest level on record since 1979. A new research paper provides a possible explanation for the puzzling situation.
A new study finds that drought onset over summer 2020 to spring 2021 was caused by four consecutive seasons of below-normal precipitation. The driest summer on record occurred in 2020, starting the drought.
The California Nevada Applications Program (CNAP), a NOAA RISA team, released a two-page outreach document on El Niño and what it might mean for the California-Nevada region. This document draws on …
Flash drought can quickly deplete soil moisture and dramatically increase evaporative stress on the environment, leading to significant impacts on agriculture. A recently completed study, ...
“Flash drought” has become a popular term in the media, but the debate of what a flash drought really is has caused confusion that affects scientists’ ability to detect their onset, monitor their …