News & Features

ENSO-neutral conditions are likely to remain through the fall. What’s going on in the tropical Pacific? While we’re at it, what’s going on with the Atlantic hurricane season?

Generated by feeding historic weather observations into a modern computer forecast model, a new NOAA-funded dataset is like a time machine that reconstructs a detailed picture of the global weather every day back to 1836.

Much of the southeastern United States went from little drought to widespread severe drought in a matter of a few weeks thanks to little rain and hot and sunny days. 

Women from states in the U.S. Southeast have the highest rates of premature deliveries in the country. Extreme heat plays a role.

New research weighs in on a popular debate about whether reduced Arctic sea ice is causing extreme mid-latitude winters. Their result? Blame the atmosphere, not the ice. 

In 2019, the area of the Arctic Ocean where the summer sea ice cover was at least 15 percent tied with 2007 and 2016 as the second-smallest on record. 

The Global Climate Dashboard provides one-stop access to information, maps, and graphs of key indicators of our global climate. Interactive graphs provide a system-wide view of the state of natural patterns like El Niño and the Arctic Oscillation and those linked to human-caused climate change, such as sea level rise and greenhouse gases. 

The tropical Pacific Ocean may be ENSO-neutral, but there are still plenty of climate-and-weather topics to talk about.

A collection of links to the latest NOAA updates on Hurricane Dorian. 

RISA Spokane Community Adaptation Project continues. In a new blog post, the project team provides insight to the value of close engagement with climate information user communities. ...