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Warm, dry October intensifies U.S. drought

November 8, 2022

Mississippi River sees lowest water levels in a decade

Aerial photo from October 2022 of low river levels around Tower Rock on the Mississippi River at Grand Tower, Ill.

NOAA climate science, services highlighted at COP27 UN Climate Summit

November 6, 2022

The artwork for the COP27 meeting in Egypt, November 9-14, 2022.

NOAA Administrator on the COP27 UN climate summit

November 6, 2022

A coordinated approach to adaptation

New mapping feature offers tribal nations customized drought, climate data

November 3, 2022

U.S. drought monitor map showing tribal boundaries.

NOAA offers new, free guidebooks for climate resilience

October 26, 2022

Climate practitioners sit at a table.

Community climate planning projects underway in 4 Connecticut cities

October 17, 2022

Photo showing Doreen Abubaker, of the Community Placement Engagement Network and West River Watershed Partnership, talks to a group at the New Haven Folk Festival about climate change impacts in New Haven and the upcoming Climathon. Credit: Steve Hamm, Reimaging New Haven.

Drought.gov launches new map feature for Tribal Nations

October 14, 2022

Screenshot of U.S. drought monitor map.

September 2022 tied as Earth’s 5th warmest on record

October 14, 2022

Tropical cyclones brought devastation around the world

Flooded motorcycles are seen parked on a bridge in a village hit by Super Typhoon Noru on September 26, 2022, in San Miguel, Bulacan province, Philippines.

NOAA to issue 2022-2023 U.S. Winter Outlook

October 13, 2022

Snow-covered street in Chicago.

Ian is 15th billion-dollar disaster this year so far

October 11, 2022

September 2022 was the fifth warmest, 10th driest on record

Aerial imagery from NOAA's National Geodetic Survey of damage in the Times Square district of Fort Myers Beach, Fla., after Category 4 Hurricane Ian struck the area.

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