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Map of U.S. showing number of weeks different places have been experiencing drought conditions

New Drought.gov a one-stop NOAA resource for all things drought

January 20, 2021

New website features more interactive content and easy-to-understand graphics describing current and predicted drought conditions.

January 2021 La Niña update: remote destinations

January 14, 2021

The tropical Pacific seems so far away, yet it affects weather and climate around the world. Our blogger updates you on the current La Niña event and what forecasters think is next.

Small postage-stamp sized maps of monthly temperatures for 2020 in the U.S.

2020 was the United States' fifth-warmest year on record

January 13, 2021

Nationwide warmth was accompanied by extreme precipitation differences: dry conditions in the West and wet conditions in much of the East.

2020 U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in historical context

January 8, 2021

2020 smashed the previous record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. NCEI's Adam Smith gives us a full accounting of the year's events.

January 2021 outlook: wetter and warmer than average for much of the United States

January 4, 2021

January 2021 is favored to be wetter and warmer than average for much of the country.

ENSO and… Antarctica! And penguins!

December 18, 2020

Let's take a trip to the land of penguins and see what ENSO means for Antarctica!

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Climate Change: Global Sea Level
January 25, 2021
Sea level has risen 8-9 inches since 1880, and the rate is accelerating thanks to glacier and ice sheet melt.

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New Drought.gov a one-stop NOAA resource for all things drought
January 20, 2021
New website features more interactive content and easy-to-understand graphics describing current and predicted drought conditions.

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Eighth-warmest December on record helps 2020 end as second-hottest year on record
January 15, 2021
Despite the influence of La Niña, December 2020 was the eighth-hottest December on record helping 2020 become the second-hottest year on record.

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January 2021 La Niña update: remote destinations
January 14, 2021
The tropical Pacific seems so far away, yet it affects weather and climate around the world. Our blogger updates you on the current La Niña event and what forecasters think is next.

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Month-by-month recap of 2020's global temperature patterns
January 14, 2021
2020 was the second-warmest year on record for the globe overall, and land areas were record warm.

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