Climate news and stories

Understanding El Niño

February 2, 2016

A satellite image of the Earth showing an abnormally warm area near the equator off the West Coast of South America.

January 2016 blizzard ranked Category 4 on Northeast snowfall scale

January 29, 2016

The 2016 blizzard ranked as a category 4 storm on the NESIS scale. Residents were forced to walk in the streets of Washington, D.C., during and after the snowstorm.

NOAA, NASA host media event on El Niño research, use of NASA Global Hawk

January 29, 2016

Scientists available for interviews, tours of Global Hawk drone, command center

Monitoring our changing world from land, sea and sky

January 25, 2016

Composite map of the world assembled from data acquired by the NOAA Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.

Resilience 101: How America can withstand wild weather

January 21, 2016

An overflight shows some of the damage that Hurricane Sandy caused when it hit the east coast at the end of October, 2012.

How climate affects beer

January 21, 2016

How can climate extremes affect our nation’s most popular alcoholic beverage?

NCEI releases 2015 climate summary

January 21, 2016

During 2015, the global average temperature was 1.62°F above the 20th century average. This was the highest among all 136 years in the 1880–2015 record.

Quinault Indian Nation plans village relocation

January 21, 2016

As the threats of tsunamis and sea level rise are joined by real and potential climate impacts, the Quinault community on Washington's Olympic Peninsula looks to move to higher ground.

It's official: 2015 was Earth's warmest year by widest margin on record

January 20, 2016

The United States also experienced record warmth last year

NOAA, NASA to announce official analyses of 2015 global temperature, climate conditions

January 15, 2016

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