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- Department:December 29, 2016
As cold air filtered into the United States over the Great Lakes, the lake effect snow machine turned on burying nearby locations.
- Department:December 28, 2016
Although surface melt did not set a new record in 2016, the Greenland Ice Sheet did continue a long-term trend of decreasing mass, according to the latest Arctic Report Card from NOAA and its partners.
- Department:December 22, 2016
Warming sea surface temperatures from climate change are pushing populations of the American Lobster (Homarus americanus) farther north than ever before.
- Department:December 21, 2016
How does La Niña and the jet stream impact winter conditions in the United States?
- Department:December 14, 2016
A black swan event is a situation so rare that few people would have imagined it was possible. In November 2016, researchers were caught off guard by just such an event: extremely low sea ice extents in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Department:December 15, 2016
A Q & A about the science of detecting the influence of global warming on hurricanes, fires, and other extreme events.
- Department:December 8, 2016
La Niña is forecast to hang on for just a few more months. Meanwhile, November was an active month in the tropics.
- Department:December 13, 2016
A new NOAA-sponsored report shows that unprecedented warming air temperature in 2016 triggered massive declines in sea ice and snow cover across the Arctic, and brought a record-breaking delay to fall sea ice freeze up. Learn more through our image highlights of the 2016 Arctic Report Card.
- Department:December 1, 2016
Providing more timely and accurate information over the western hemisphere, total lightning mapping, and higher resolution images streaming down from space more often, the new GOES satellite marks the first major redesign of the nation’s operational Earth-observing technology in more than 20 years.
- Department:November 30, 2016
While the U.S. was observing Thanksgiving last week, Costa Rica was facing the first landfalling hurricane on record for the Central American country.