Sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic are more hurricane-friendly so far this season than in the record-setting 2020 season.
Climate Change & Global Warming
Multi-year drought and heat waves across Mexico in 2024
July 22, 2024
Temperatures across the North Atlantic Ocean have been record hot for more than a year.
The precise year of the first "ice-free" Arctic summer will likely come down to weather events. For people and other life in the Arctic, the exact timing matters less than the long-term trend.
Our blogger herds some cats who discover that the strong El Niño was not the only factor driving the forecasted precipitation pattern in winter 2023-24. What else was there?
How warm winters and low ice may impact the Great Lakes
March 18, 2024
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.
