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- Department:September 27, 2021
But lower emissions will reduce the intensity of the driest years of megadrought events.
- Department:September 23, 2021
The latest IPCC report on the Physical Science Basis of climate change covers pretty much everything you can think of, including ENSO. So what were its conclusions? Our ENSO Bloggers walk us through the report's conclusions and what they mean.
- Department:September 23, 2021
By 2030, the combination of extreme heat and atmospheric dryness that made the ongoing drought so extreme is likely to return more than once a decade. Such record-low precipitation, however, is likely to remain rare.
- Department:August 9, 2021
The findings of their review of more than 14,000 studies are clear: climate change is affecting nearly every part of the planet, and there is no doubt that human activities are the cause.
- Department:June 30, 2021
From Portland, Oregon, to Vancouver, Canada, the heat didn't just break records; it buried them.
- Department:June 23, 2021
An early summer heatwave across the drought-stricken West smashed records in seven states as temperatures cleared 100 degrees Fahrenheit for days on end.
- Department:June 15, 2021
May 2021 global surface temperature was 1.46°F above the 20th-century average, tying with 2018 as the sixth-warmest May in the 142-year record.
- Department:April 22, 2021
The tropical Pacific Ocean is warming up! What does that mean for the way we measure the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)? Time to start looking at relative sea surface temperatures.
- Department:April 19, 2021
Every ten years, NOAA releases an analysis of U.S. weather of the past three decades, calculating average values for temperature, rainfall, and other climate conditions that have come to represent the new “normals” of our changing climate.
- Department:April 2, 2021
The April 2021 climate outlook tilts warmer than average for most of the country and drier than average across the southern tier of the United States.