Mount Agung in Indonesia erupted for the first time since 1963 causing widespread evacuations on the island of Bali. But is it a climate event?
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In an ironic exclamation point to swift regional climate change in and near the Arctic, the average temperature observed at the weather station at Utqiaġvik has now changed so rapidly that in November 2017, it triggered an algorithm designed to detect artificial changes in a station’s record and disqualified itself from the NCEI Alaskan temperature analysis.
The most recent 8-14 day outlook for the United States predicts a turn towards wintry temperatures across the eastern United States, but much warmer than average temperatures in the West.
Where winter sea ice should be starting to cover the ocean, thousands of square miles of open water stretch westward from Alaska across the Bering and Chukchi Seas in November 2017.
Herein lies the answer to the question you all have been asking: What about snow?
If you define the start of winter as the arrival of the first snow, what's the earliest winter has arrived at the weather station nearest you?
Suffocating smog stifled communities across northern India and Pakistan in mid-November 2017.
Once at odds, a climate expert and botanist who studies ancient plants later teamed up to improve understanding of one of the warmest periods in Earth history.
Southern Florida experienced its highest tides of the year over the last couple of months leading to coastal flooding.
Despite some stormy interference from the MJO in October, La Niña conditions have arrived. NOAA predicts this "double-dip" La Niña will last through winter.