A La Niña Watch has been issued by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. But also, we are still in El Niño! Confused? Let the ENSO bloggers explain.
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Last year's marine heat wave and coral bleaching was so unprecedented, NOAA had to add new risk levels to this satellite-based monitoring scale.
2023 “exceptional” drought would have been two categories weaker and ~30 times less likely in a world without global warming.
January brought the country both warm and cold extremes; which is likely to dominate in February?
A major disruption of the stratospheric polar vortex occurred. What happens next? The stratosphere will try to communicate its artistic vision down to the troposphere, but the troposphere may have its own masterpiece in mind.
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With an analogy drawn from the gym, Michelle L'Heureux explains (again!) how weather (your workout) is not climate (your fitness).
Very warm December temperatures led to record-low ice cover across the Great Lakes to start the year. While a recent cold snap has kick-started some freezing, ice cover remains under the historical average. Will this late start have any impact on this year's final ice extent?
In a record going back to 1850, Earth hasn't had a year colder than the 20th-century average since 1976—almost half a century.
The latest forecast says a major disruption of the polar vortex is on its way, but the stratosphere has been acting up for a while. Our bloggers explain what it might mean for U.S. weather.