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The chance El Niño will develop is about equal to the chance that the tropical Pacific will stay in neutral. What are forecasters looking at this month?

A rare May tropical cyclone in the South Pacific impacts Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

A massive low-pressure system that brought extreme weather to the U.S. Great Plains last week brought a flood emergency to Montréal, Canada, over the weekend. 

A sprawling storm system brought severe weather, tornadoes, and flooding to parts of the United States and blizzard conditions to others.

Yet another warm February left Northeast apple growers worrying if their crops will survive below-freezing spring temperatures. In this week's blog, Art DeGaetano of the Northeast Regional Climate Center talks about an online tool that helps apple growers estimate risk and damages to their yields based on bloom stage, historical climate data, and local temperature forecasts. 

While much of the rest of the country has been getting soaked (or buried in snow), below-average winter rainfall and well above average temperatures pushed Florida into moderate and severe drought in April 2017.

Can we blame this year’s active start to the severe weather season on the winter’s weak La Niña conditions?

Convergence is a website developed through community collaboration to address climate-health vulnerabilities in the Carolinas. The website represents a collaboration among climatologists, public ... ...

Convergence is a website developed through community collaboration to address climate-health vulnerabilities in the Carolinas. The website represents a collaboration among climatologists, public ... ...

News release from Scripps Institution of Oceanography: The Lagrangian Drifter Laboratory (LDL) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is releasing a new type of drifter, the Directional ... ...