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Department:May 13, 2021Neutral conditions have returned to the tropical Pacific. Our blogger looks ahead to the rest of 2021.
Department:May 3, 2021The May 2021 outlook favors warmth for the southern half of the country and a wet East-dry West split.
Department:April 22, 2021The 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.
Climate Program Office and community scientists to map urban heat inequities in 11 states
Department:April 20, 2021Source:Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather event, but not everyone’s risk is the same. Within the same city, some neighborhoods can be up to 20°F hotter than others. In the summer of 2021, community-led campaigns will map the hottest parts of cities in 11 states: Albuquerque, New Mexico; Atlanta; New York City; Charleston, South Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina; San Diego; San Francisco; and parts of New Jersey, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
Drought task force shows progress in advancing drought monitoring and prediction in new special collection
Department:April 20, 2021Source:In a special collection of the American Meteorological Society, 13 papers produced by researchers from the third NOAA Climate Program Office’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program Drought Task Force (DTF3) describe research advances leading to improved monitoring, prediction, and understanding of past droughts.
Giant Australian bushfire injected 1 million tons of smoke into the atmosphere
Department:April 20, 2021Source:New research on the massive Australian bushfires in 2019 and 2020 shows that almost 1 million metric tons of smoke rose into the stratosphere, causing it to warm by about 1 degree Celsius for six months, and likely contributed to the large and persistent ozone hole that formed over Antarctica during the Southern Hemisphere’s spring.
Five ways NOAA scientists are answering big questions about climate change
Department:April 20, 2021Source:Tracking greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, understanding ocean warming, exploring the link between climate change and hurricanes, tracking warming in the Great Lakes, and working towards climate resilience are just five examples of the many ways NOAA scientists are answering question about climate change and its potential impacts on human societies.
Department:April 19, 2021Every 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 14, 2021Although this was the smallest warm departure for any March since 2014, it was still the eighth-warmest March for the planet in the 142-year record.
‘Average’ Atlantic hurricane season to reflect more storms
Department:April 13, 2021Source:As NOAA adopts 1991–2020 as the new 30-year period of record, “average” hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean will increase. Average activity for the new period of record means 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes.
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