Global temperature anomaly 2023. What caused the year to be so hot? Here is a breakdown of the primary factors that scientists considered. NASAEstablished in…
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Atmospheric scientist Tim Garrett’s innovative research on snowflakes has revealed that their movement in air turbulence, previously thought to be highly complex, can be predicted…
United States Air Temperature Map on January 15, 2024. Dangerously cold temperatures lingered over large swaths of the country for several days in mid-January 2024.…
Natural-color satellite image of the United States captured on January 9, 2024, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the NOAA-20 satellite. A sprawling…
Satellite image of Tropical Cyclone Jasper captured on December 12, 2023, by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The first storm of the…
A groundbreaking study published in Environmental Research Letters examined the record-breaking June heatwave in North China, which saw temperatures exceed 40°C in Beijing for three…
In 2023, heavy rains in the Horn of Africa led to widespread flooding, displacing hundreds of thousands and causing extensive damage, despite early climate predictions…
Satellite view around Anchorage, Alaska, captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite on October 26, 2023. Satellite view around Anchorage, Alaska, captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite on…
Satellite image of Lake Powell acquired on September 23, 2022, by the Operational Land Imager 2 on Landsat 9. Satellite image of Lake Powell acquired…
An unusually high tide, called a King Tide, floods a highway on-ramp in Northern California in January 2023. Sea level rise and El Niños can…
El Niño’s disruptions to global rainfall patterns may increase food insecurity, with regions like southern Africa being particularly vulnerable. FEWS NET’s analysis aids in understanding…
Launched in 2020, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is designed to monitor sea surface heights, aiding in climate studies, especially the El Niño phenomenon. By…
Lake Urmia in northwest Iran, once the Middle East’s largest lake, has mostly turned into a dry salt flat by autumn 2023. While it experienced…
Prolonged drought in 2023 has drastically lowered Mississippi River levels, disrupting transport, increasing shipping costs, and threatening Louisiana’s drinking water supplies. In September, low water…
Tundra near the Ny-Ålesund village in the summer of 2019 with the Zeppelin Observatory in the background (left-hand side, engulfed in clouds). The tundra is…
A comprehensive study by the University of Miami has revealed that human-induced aerosol emissions are a primary driver of temperature variations in the tropical Atlantic…
Researchers have developed a machine learning model, the CSU-MLP, capable of accurately predicting hazardous weather events such as tornadoes and hail four to eight days…
Already in 2019 the amount of groundwater in Central Europe was very low. Credit; Kvas – TU Graz Europe lacks groundwater – a lot of…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Europe has kicked off the new year with an intense winter…
Total Precipitable Water Vapor on January 4, 2023. The latest in a series of atmospheric rivers drenching the state was accompanied by hazardous winds and…