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Rains return to California to start 2016

Tom Di Liberto | February 3, 2016

Rains arrived in California during January 2016, but the drought remains.

Climate.gov's most requested El Niño and La Niña images

Rebecca Lindsey | February 3, 2016

Free to good home! NOAA Climate.gov provides hundreds of images and maps that are free for re-use. This page gathers up links to our most popular El Niño and La Niña images.

El Niño warmth continued during January 2016

Caitlyn Kennedy | February 2, 2016

As they were in December, waters across the tropical Pacific Ocean continued to be much warmer than average in January 2016, suggesting* that El Niño still had a grip on the basin. This image shows sa ...

Will La Niña follow El Niño? What the past tells us

January 28, 2016

How likely is a La Niña the year after an El Niño, and in particular after a strong one like this year's? IRI's Tony Barnston analyzes the history of ENSO behavior since 1950 for a possible answer.

Bark without bite: The socio-economic context of the 1950s drought

January 26, 2016

The drought of the 1950s was among the most widespread, severe and sustained ever experienced in the United States, exceeding that of the 1930s "Dust Bowl" in several states. Specifically, the 1950s . ...

SAMOS: How one dataset helps improve weather predictions

January 26, 2016

Did you watch the weather forecast today? Do you ever wonder where meteorologists get the information that helps them predict the weather? Every day, ships, buoys, and coastal platforms take ... ...

January 2016 snowstorm was a Category 5 event

Susan Osborne | January 26, 2016

According to NOAA’s Regional Snowfall Index, the January 22–24, 2016, snowstorm ranked as a Category 5 —“crippling”—event for both the Northeast and Southeast.

Dissecting 2015's warm and wet December

Deke Arndt | January 22, 2016

In the midst of the mega snowstorm bearing down on the East, NCEI's Deke Arndt looks longingly back at December's warmth in his latest Beyond the Data blog.

Warmth in the tropical Pacific in December 2015

Caitlyn Kennedy | January 21, 2016

A strong El Niño continued during December 2015 with well above average sea surface temperatures across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, according to NOAA Climate Prediction Center’s monthly El Niño advisory update.

A new OAR technical report informs the development of next-generation NOAA climate reanalysis

January 20, 2016

A new OAR/Climate Program Office (CPO) Report, summarizing key outcomes of the May 2015 NOAA Climate Reanalysis Task Force Technical Workshop held at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate ... ...

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