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  • September 2020 U.S. climate outlook: late season heat wave across the West, with potential frosts and freezes across the Northern Plains

    September 1, 2020

    The September 2020 temperature and precipitation outlook favors a warmer- and drier-than-average September across the western United States, and a wetter-than-average month across the south-central Plains and much of the East.

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  • Do you know that El Niño has a little brother?

    August 27, 2020

    Our guest blogger, Dr. Sang-Ki Lee, introduces us to a member of the El Niño family who lives in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.

     

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  • Over a million acres burned in California in second half of August 2020

    August 26, 2020

    Hundreds of wildfires burned through over one million acres of land in California in less than two weeks in August. The resulting smoke has not only worsened air quality across the state but spread across the country.

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  • A Colorado summer: Drought, wildfires and smoke in 2020

    August 20, 2020

    Wildfires across Colorado during summer 2020 has led to the shutdown of the major thoroughfare across the state and billowed smoke for hundreds of miles.

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  • July 2020: Another scorching month in a scorching year

    August 17, 2020

    July 2020 was the second-warmest July on record for the globe, as 2020 continues its scorching path to one of the hottest years on record. 

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