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More stratospheric warming expected as polar vortex gets knocked off kilter. It's too soon to tell if and where any impacts will be felt at the surface.
La Niña is still hanging around, but a transition to neutral conditions is imminent. Also, our blogger continues the investigation into how ENSO affects daily temperature variability.
As key habitat goes underwater, NOAA is relocating some endangered Hawaiian monk seals to higher ground.
For the last 40 years, the tropical Pacific has been trending toward a La Nina-like pattern. Will this trend continue into the future? What are the implications? Three experts dig into these questions and more.
Fueled by tropical moisture, a series of events flooded parts of the West with rain and snow in January 2023.
Despite the cooling influence of La Niña, 2022 was the sixth-warmest year on record.
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. The latest ENSO Outlook does in fact favor the end of La Niña with a slightly over 80% chance that ENSO-Neutral conditions will reign supreme by springtime. For more on that and another look at how daily temperatures vary during winter, click below.
The country experienced 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, tying for third place for the most disasters in a calendar year.
The January 2023 climate outlook favors a wetter-than-average start to the new year for the western US, northern Plains, Great Lakes and Tennessee Valley, and a warmer-than-average month for the central and eastern United States.