Global temperatures were record warm across both land and ocean in May, capping off the warmest spring on record.
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Several rounds of severe storms devastated the Midwest and Great Plains. Four new billion-dollar weather and climate disasters were confirmed in May.
June marks the start of meteorological summer, and warmer-than-normal temperatures are in store for much of the country. How will this early summer warmth impact precipitation patterns and drought conditions?
A record-warm April marked the eleventh consecutive month of record-setting global temperatures.
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.
Severe storms devastated the nation’s heartland in late April; spring snowstorm pummeled New England.
For much of the United States, the climate isn't tipping its hand as to whether May temperature and precipitation will be above, below, or near average.
The forecast for April leans mostly warm and wet, with good news for drought in the Central Plains.
A record-warm February capped the Northern Hemisphere's warmest winter on record.
It was the warmest winter on record for the contiguous U.S.