In a study of rainfall over land, these tamed monsters dumped more rain than any other category of Atlantic tropical cyclones, including hurricanes.
Volunteers in three states are recording changes to their local beaches, information that's vital to protecting and restoring their seashores.
May 2020 tied with May 2016 as the warmest May on record for the globe, continuing 2020’s streak of having every single month either be the warmest or second-warmest month on record
While the precipitation outlook for June is varied, the temperature outlook is one-sided, with most of the country having a higher chance for a warm June than a cool one.
The May 2020 temperature and precipitation outlook issued by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center forecasts a warmer-than-average May for the western United States and Gulf Coast and a drier-than-average month for the Great Lakes.
Global temperatures in March 2020 were the second warmest on record, helping to start spring off just as abnormally warm as winter ended.
It's the start of meteorological spring, and warmer-than-average temperatures are favored for the central/eastern United States, while the precipitation outlook is more variable.
Extreme precipitation events have grown more frequent since the start of the twentieth century, and such events are likely to become even more frequent over the twenty-first.
The devastating floods in the Missouri and Mississippi basins aren't the end of the problems caused by the wet spring in 2019. Fertilizer overload from high river runoff is forecast to lead to a very large dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico later this summer.
In North Carolina's Outer Banks, the coastal Town of Nags Head is vulnerable to flooding from heavy rain events, hurricanes, tropical storms, nor’easters, and storm surge. To add insult to injury, vulnerability is increasing with sea level rise. Town managers and residents recognized the need to build the town's resilience and moved forward to prioritize and plan.