High-tide "nuisance flooding" has increased between 300 and 925 percent since the 1960s as a result of sea level rise. In this Q&A, Billy Sweet and John Marra explain the changes and offer projections for the remainder of the 2015-16 monitoring year.
Based on observations from 1991-2020, much of the United States has its hottest day of the year by the end of July. Historically speaking, where is the warmest day likely still to come?
Wait, a hurricane formed where in the Atlantic?
September 3, 2015
Central Pacific hurricane party: three’s company
September 3, 2015
For three days in 2005, flooding from Hurricane Katrina cut off the only road to Port Fourchon. Officials had to decide: did the risk of future flooding justify the cost of raising the roadway out of the Gulf's rising waters?
Climate change is expected to intensify fire-friendly weather conditions across the US and to lengthen the fire season.
Plants on land have helped slow global warming by capturing nearly a quarter of the carbon dioxide that human activities release in an average year. But where is it all going?
Late July’s stupefying heat indexes in southwest Iran
August 14, 2015
NOAA is helping the CDC build a new heat-health information system to help protect Americans from sweltering summers.