Most models project that further warming will decrease the total number of Atlantic hurricanes, but increase the number of very strong storms.
Two NOAA hurricane experts explain why it’s still so hard to say whether global warming to date has affected the number or intensity of Atlantic hurricanes.
If you're planting a garden this spring, this set of maps based on U.S. climate data can help you see how planting zones across the country have shifted over the past few decades.
In many locations, spring snow also melts earlier, reducing summer streamflows.
The February 2022 climate outlook favors warmer-than-average temperatures across the southern and eastern U.S., with cooler and wetter conditions favored across the north. Out West, a drier-than-average month is forecast.
It's been 45 years since the planet had a cooler-than-average year.
Ice older than 4 years once dominated the winter ice pack in the Arctic. Today, only a tiny fraction of old, thick survives.
But fires and other disturbances create patches of "browning" in satellites' view of Arctic vegetation.
Greenland has lost ice mass every year since 1998. Losses in 2021 would have added about 0.2 millimeters to global sea level.