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How can we call something a thousand-year storm if we don't have a thousand years of climate observations?

Tom Di Liberto | September 29, 2016

Using the June floods in West Virginia as an example, the Climate Prediction Center's Tom Di Liberto explains how meteorologists are like paleontologists turning the bones of an incomplete skeleton into a complete picture of a dinosaur.

First dates: When does the climate record say you can expect the season's first snow?

Deke Arndt | September 29, 2016

For those who are still waiting for winter's first snow, Deke Arndt blogs about using historical climate data to ballpark when it might arrive.

Sea level in Indian Ocean shows abrupt rise, new study says

September 28, 2016

A CPO-funded study was recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research . The paper includes data showing sea level rise in the northern Indian Ocean rose twice as fast as the global ... ...

New NOAA product improves early warning of drought

September 23, 2016

Farmers, ranchers, and water resource managers will now have more time to prepare for potentially damaging drought conditions thanks to a new early warning product now available online . Developed ... ...

The Incredible Growth of the 2015-16 El Niño followed by the Incredible Shrinking La Niña forecast

Michelle L'Heureux | September 22, 2016

Because why go to the movies when you come to Climate.gov and watch the evolution of ENSO forecasts over the past two years?

Ocean eddies and the atmosphere regulate western boundary currents, study says

September 16, 2016

CPO-funded research analyzing the implications of ocean mesoscale eddies and the atmosphere for western boundary currents was published in Nature . Current climate models underestimate western ... ...

Northwest Passage clear of ice again in 2016

Tom Di Liberto | September 16, 2016

The Northwest Passage across the Canadian Arctic opened once again in 2016 as sea ice reached its second lowest extent on record.

Arctic sea ice ties for second lowest in 2016

Michon Scott | September 15, 2016

In September 2016, Arctic sea ice tied with 2007 for the second-lowest minimum extent in the satellite record, underscoring an ongoing trend of sea ice decline.

NOAA soliciting author nominations and technical inputs for Fourth National Climate Assessment

September 14, 2016

Development of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) is underway, and on behalf of the U. S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), NOAA is soliciting nominations for authors and technical . ...

August 2016 tropical Pacific update

Rebecca Lindsey | September 08, 2016

The tropical Pacific has cooled since the end of El Niño this spring, but the pace of cooling had slowed as of August.

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