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Climate Impacts
- Department:October 4, 2021
The October 2021 climate outlook favors a warmer-than-average month for the central and eastern United States and wetter-than-average conditions for the Plains.
- 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:August 9, 2021
Much of the U.S. Southwest is near-desert. What does drought even mean in a place like that?
- Department:August 24, 2021
In mid-August 2021, a late-summer heatwave struck Greenland, causing widespread melt on the ice sheet and rain at the summit.
- Department:August 12, 2021
Neutral conditions are hanging on, but for how long? Our blogger explains why a return to La Niña this fall/winter is looking more likely.
- 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:August 3, 2021
The August 2021 Climate outlook favors a wetter-than-average month across the Southwest and Southeast and above-average temperatures across much of the contiguous U.S..
- Department:July 22, 2021
Our guest blogger explains how our food system is being controlled by ENSO. Also, why La Nina events are particularly troublesome.
- 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.