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Department:June 19, 2018But basin-wide quiet periods favor rapid intensification of U.S. landfalling hurricanes.
Department:May 24, 2018Want to forecast both weather and climate? First this means understanding the faster and slower moving features of our atmosphere, ocean, and land.
Department:May 11, 2018This animated gif tracks the emergence and decay of La Niña in the tropical Pacific from August 2017-April 2018.
Department:March 22, 2018In this week's ENSO blog, Tom DiLiberto gets all judgy over the 2017-2018 Winter Outlook—using science of course.
Department:March 15, 2018The Climate Prediction Center's Mike Halpert runs down the 2018 spring forecast for flooding, temperature, precipitation, and drought.
Department:March 12, 2018You wouldn't know it to look at the snow falling in the Mid-Atlantic, but according to meteorological convention, winter ended in February. In today’s "Beyond the Data" post, we’ll pull some fun regional trivia out of the national climate summary for February/winter. Bonus: there’s at least one lesson about the climate system in each nugget.
Department:February 22, 2018How this winter's temperature swings may have been partially driven by the Madden Julian Oscillation or MJO.
Department:February 15, 2018Much of the southwestern United States has seen below-average amounts of snow fall so far during Winter. While currently impacting ski resorts across the region, the lack of snow could bring even greater problems to water resources later this year.
Department:January 26, 2018La Niña usually means a drier than average water year for California. So what happened in 2016-2017 when a weak La Niña coincided with a remarkably wet water year?
Department:January 24, 2018Have you ever wondered what the biggest, hottest, coldest or deepest weather records were for your state? So have many people. These data are interesting on the surface, but going Beyond the Data, they also help us think about resiliency in the face of weather, or climate or climate change, or some combination of the above.
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