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  • Map of Gulf Coast showing rainfall totals May 17-18, 2021

    A foot of rain causes flash flood emergency in Louisiana during mid-May 2021

    May 21, 2021

    Still recovering from two hurricane hits last summer, parts of southwest Louisiana received more than a foot of rain in 24 hours this week.

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  • May 2021 ENSO update: bye for now, La Niña!

    May 13, 2021

    Neutral conditions have returned to the tropical Pacific. Our blogger looks ahead to the rest of 2021.

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  • May 2021 outlook: Warmth favored for southern half of contiguous U.S., wetter conditions for the East

    May 3, 2021

    The May 2021 outlook favors warmth for the southern half of the country and a wet East-dry West split.

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  • Is ENSO running a fever, or is it global warming?

    April 22, 2021

    The 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.

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  • small US maps showing different temperature and precipitation normals compared to the 20th-century average

    Climate change and the 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals

    April 19, 2021

    Every 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.

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