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.
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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.
Across much of the mid-latitudes, models estimate that the converting forests to farms and rangeland shortened the return period for extremely hot, dry summers: from every 10 years to every 2-3 years.
The interim director of NOAA's High Plains Regional Climate Center talks about partnering with tribes on the Wind River Indian Reservation to develop new tools and resources for coping with drought.
Several consecutive years of well below-average rains have led to low reservoir levels and water rationing in South Africa's second most populous city, Cape Town.