Winter was warm and dry for the contiguous U.S.; seasonal snowfall was below average across the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest.
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After racing around the pole for the last several months, the polar vortex is ready for a break. Will this break be temporary, or is it done for the season? Read on to find out.
Natural variability can explain much of Earth's average temperature variation since the end of the last ice age, but over the past century, global average temperature has risen from near the coldest to the warmest levels in the past 11,300 years.
The March outlook favors a La Niña-like precipitation pattern and mild temperatures across much of the country.
Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5)'s Art × Climate gallery encourages people to engage with climate in a new way. This work by Diane Burke captures changes in Grinnell Glacier.
A new paper looked at 20 years work of real-time ENSO Model forecasts and found some interesting patterns. Did you know models found it pretty freaking hard to predict the onset of La Nina events?
Earth’s hottest periods occurred before humans existed. Those ancient climates would have been like nothing our species has ever seen.
Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5)'s Art × Climate gallery encourages people to engage with climate in a new way. This work by Meredith Nemirov imagines a Colorado landscape with abundant water and resilience to drought.
The troposphere, not the stratosphere, can be thanked for the cold weather this week.
Scientists widely agree that human-caused warming is generally making fires in California and the rest of the West larger and more severe. Figuring out how important long-term warming is to individual cool-season fires like the Eaton and Palisades Fires is a little more complicated.