In this Beyond the Data blog, Deke Arndt talks about using the climate record to predict the odds of rain on the Fourth of July.
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The devastating floods in the Missouri and Mississippi basins aren't the end of the problems caused by the wet spring in 2019. Fertilizer overload from high river runoff is forecast to lead to a very large dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico later this summer.
El Niño is still here, and it's likely to stick around through the summer. Our blogger takes a look ahead.
With the annual updating of NCEI’s climate trends maps, let’s go Beyond the Data to a land of seesaws and duct tape.
An early heat wave broke temperature records across the Southeast over Memorial Day weekend 2019 as the mercury reached triple digits.
The major El Niño of 2015-16 affected disease occurrence throughout the globe. Our blogger discusses new efforts to use ENSO forecasts to issue early warning alerts for global disease outbreaks.
Pulled from the Fourth National Climate Assessment report published in November 2018, this FAQ explains what we know about the connection between global warming and Atlantic hurricanes.
During active hurricane eras, a persistent zone of high vertical wind shear along the U.S. East Coast provides protection from rapidly intensifying hurricanes. With high emissions, that shear is projected to relax.
In North Carolina's Outer Banks, the coastal Town of Nags Head is vulnerable to flooding from heavy rain events, hurricanes, tropical storms, nor’easters, and storm surge. To add insult to injury, vulnerability is increasing with sea level rise. Town managers and residents recognized the need to build the town's resilience and moved forward to prioritize and plan.
First massive flooding and then a blizzard, the Plains and Upper Midwest experienced huge weather events in March and April 2019. In this installment of the Beyond the Data blog, NCEI's Deke Arndt provides a post-game analysis.