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What's the U.S. climate outlook for September 2018?

September 10, 2018

Temperature outlook for the month of September.

Summer 2018 ranked 4th hottest on record for U.S.

September 6, 2018

A NOAA satellite image of Hurricane Lane as it approached the Hawaiian Islands on August 22, 2018. The storm brought massive flooding and extreme rainfall to parts of Hawaii.

Heat-seeking citizen scientists zero-in on D.C., Baltimore for mapping mission

August 27, 2018

A corps of volunteer science enthusiasts are hitting the road the week of August 27, with an important task in front of them: Collect real-time data about the hottest places in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., as part of a 2018 NOAA-funded project to map places where people are most at risk during extreme heat waves.

July 2018 was 4th warmest July on record for the globe

August 20, 2018

Polar sea ice coverage remains smaller than normal

NOAA monthly climate call: August 16

August 14, 2018

Experts recap July, provide outlooks through November, and discuss recent heat and wildfires in the West

July 2018 was 11th warmest July on record for U.S.

August 8, 2018

May through July was the warmest such period on record

Death Valley National Park set a new world record in July 2018: It was the hottest place during hottest month on record. Temperatures reached 127 degrees F for four days in a row (as shown in this photo of a temperature sign in front of the park's visitor center), and the park experienced an average monthly temperature of 108 degrees for July. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/deva.

Explore visual highlights of the 2017 State of the Climate report

August 1, 2018

2017 State of the Climate Highlights

2017 was one of three warmest years on record, international report confirms

August 1, 2018

A graph showing the increasing number of hot days each year since 1950 relative to the 1961-1990 baseline, according to the State of the Climate in 2017 report published August 1, 2018, in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. “Hot days” are defined as the top 10% of daytime high temperatures during the baseline period.

NOAA, AMS to announce findings of State of the Climate in 2017 report

July 26, 2018

CIRES scientist Patrick Cullis releases a weather balloon carrying an ozonesonde from NOAA's Marshall Mesa on the 50th anniversary of the first ozonesonde launch from the research site near Boulder, Colorado, in 1967.

Great Lakes ice cover decreasing over the last 40 years

July 18, 2018

Great Lakes ice cover on February 12, 2018.

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