News & Features

Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer

Amara Huddleston | July 17, 2019

American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.

High temperatures smash all-time records in Alaska in early July 2019

Tom Di Liberto | July 16, 2019

Extreme heat in Alaska in early July 2019 contributed to fire activity and terrible air quality.

July 2019 El Niño update: I think I'll go for a walk

Emily Becker | July 11, 2019

El Niño conditions are likely to transition to neutral within a month or two. What’s in store for the rest of 2019?

Prepare for more downpours: Heavy rain has increased across most of the United States, and is likely to increase further

Michon Scott | July 10, 2019

Extreme precipitation events have grown more frequent since the start of the twentieth century, and such events are likely to become even more frequent over the twenty-first.

ENSO forecast mash-ups: What's the best way to combine human expertise with models?

Tom Di Liberto | July 1, 2019

Is it possible for us to predict the strength of El Niño or La Nina in the same way we currently predict whether we are in El Niño or La Nina? Recent research from NOAA's ENSO forecasting team looks directly at this question.

Will it rain on your parade? Where the climate record says it's likely to rain on Fourth of July

Deke Arndt, Rebecca Lindsey | June 24, 2019

In this Beyond the Data blog, Deke Arndt talks about using the climate record to predict the odds of rain on the Fourth of July.

Wet spring linked to forecast for big Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' this summer

Rebecca Lindsey | June 18, 2019

The devastating floods in the Missouri and Mississippi basins aren't the end of the problems caused by the wet spring in 2019. Fertilizer overload from high river runoff is forecast to lead to a very large dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico later this summer.