For several days in early September, southerly winds drew warm air over the ice sheet, triggering a record-large spike in surface melt.
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Globally, it was the sixth-warmest August on record, but the Northern Hemisphere tied 2020 for being record warm.
August 2022 drew to a close the third-warmest summer on record for the contiguous United States.
It's all but a done deal: odds of La Niña this winter are higher than 90 percent. Plus a reminder list of why we care so much about La Niña.
The September 2022 climate outlook favors a warmer-than-average month for most of the contiguous United States along with a dry/wet split between the northern and southern tiers of the U.S.
Global surface temperature was among the 6 warmest years on record, despite a "double-dip" La Niña event that chilled the Pacific much of the year.
For summer heat in Texas, whether it's La NIña now is less important than whether it was La Niña the previous winter.
For the eighth year in a row, late spring snow cover was below average in 2025.
Earth had its sixth-warmest July on record, with extreme dryness over Europe, the U.S. West, western Australia, and central South America, and extreme wetness over eastern Australia, east-central Africa, and parts of the Middle East.
The tropical Pacific appears to be hopelessly devoted to La Niña for at least the early part of winter.