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Meteorologists use Doppler radar to track precipitation across the country. It provides not only information about falling rain and snow, but also a sense of the direction of the winds, which can help provide information about potential severe weather such as tornadoes. But Doppler radar can also track other things in the sky, such as…
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The National Centers for Environmental Information produced a summary of all of the billion dollar weather disasters that have affected the US in 2016, including Hurricane Matthew and the forest fires in the Southeast this year. You can read about all of the other disasters that happened this year at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/.
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The end of the year has come and gone and now we are both looking back to the past and looking ahead to what will happen in the next growing season. I want to take a few minutes to highlight the last year’s climate and to look forward to the next year. NOAA will publish…
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Recent research in Science Advances by University of California-Berkeley has confirmed what NOAA scientists reported in 2015: there was no pause in global warming during the period when most media skeptics were talking about the end of the warming curve. The scientists looked at methods for correcting climate data to account for changes in instrumentation,…
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The recent cold snap which we’ve experienced across the US is something we expect to see with a La Niña, and it won’t surprise me if we see a few more outbreaks of cold air this winter and even into spring as the La Niña diminishes and we go back to neutral conditions. You can…
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This morning at 5:44 am EST we officially experienced the winter solstice of 2016. This is the shortest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere (and the longest for the Southern Hemisphere) due to the tilt of the earth’s axis of rotation, which is tilting away from the sun this time of the year.…
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A new NOAA-sponsored report shows that unprecedented warming air temperature in 2016 over the Arctic contributed to a record-breaking delay in the fall sea ice freeze-up, leading to extensive melting of Greenland ice sheet and land-based snow cover. The Arctic Report Card, released this week at the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco,…