Behind the curtains of NOAA's monthly global climate report
For about 20 years, the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI; formerly known as the National Climatic Data Center) has released a monthly Global Climate Report. The report can be...
View ArticleHow tree rings tell time and climate history
Most of us learned as children that the age of a tree could be found by counting its rings. Rings of trees growing in temperate climates can indeed tell their age through their annual rings and also...
View ArticleWarming winters across the United States
Daytime highs were in the negative teens in parts of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes at the end of January, and the chill extended across much of the East. By the first week of February, temperatures...
View Article2018's Billion Dollar Disasters in Context
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) tracks U.S. weather and climate events that have great economic and societal impacts. Since 1980, the U.S. has sustained 241 weather and...
View ArticleBitterly cold extremes on a warming planet: Putting the Midwest’s late...
The record cold temperatures in the Midwestern United States in late-January led to over 20 fatalities and economic impacts likely to exceed $1 billion, according to one insurance industry estimate....
View ArticleHot and dry, warm and wet: Summer 2018 extremes in the U.S. Climate Reference...
As Adam Smith wrote about in his recent billion-dollar disasters post, 2018 saw an unusual number of amazing—and deadly—weather events. Some had national coverage, especially Hurricanes Florence and...
View ArticleSomething about lions, lambs, flowers and showers
Borrowing one of meteorology’s great euphemisms, this spring has been “an active one” in much of the country. The Plains and Upper Midwest experienced huge events in back-to-back months. March brought...
View ArticleDuct tape and seesaws: Climate trends 101
A few weeks ago, NCEI updated its U.S. climate trends maps with the data from 2018. Most months and places are getting warmer over time, especially over the very long (century scale) term. Trends in...
View Article2010-2019: A landmark decade of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate...
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) tracks U.S. weather and climate events that have great economic and societal impacts (www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions). Since 1980, the U.S. has...
View Article2020 U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in historical context
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has released the final 2020 update to its Billion-dollar disaster report (www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions), officially confirming what...
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