Browse stories about the ‘climate behind the weather’ in this interactive map of current events found in our News and Features department.

This image shows the total precipitable water forecast on April 6, 2018. The narrow bridge of moisture connecting the tropics and the U.S. West Coast is known as an atmospheric river.

This interactive map shows the latest day for which snow greater than 0.1 inches was recorded for thousands of U.S. weather stations during their period of operation (up through April 11 of 2018).

Interactive table and map showing state- and county-specific drought impacts ranked by U.S. Drought Monitor categories, including impacts to industry, natural resources, and human health.

Long-term sea level change trends at 100+ U.S. locations. Blue, upward arrows show where local sea level is rising. Brown, downward arrows show where local sea level is falling.

This video of data from February 2014 shows storm clouds, then an animation of moisture from the tropics, and finally, how the atmospheric river banked up against the storm's cold front and moved inland with it.

Compare projected changes in downhill ski season length by 2050 if we follow a moderate versus a high pathway of carbon emissions.

To highlight spring’s extremes, here are maps of the warmest and coolest first day of spring (March 19) recorded at thousands of U.S. weather stations during each station’s history.

Interactive map showing the average annual coldest winter temperatures across the contiguous U.S. divided into 10-degree "planting zone" bins for 1971-2000, 1981-2010, and the shift between the two.

What are the chances of rain on the Fourth of July? This map shows the historic probability of there being of at least 0.1 inch of rain on the July 4 based on the latest U.S. Climate Normals from NOAA NCEI.

Heat maps and matching satellite images presented with a slider, so that readers can get a sense of how and why each city experiences such a wide range of temperatures on a hot summer day.

This Storymap provides access to a collection of "stripes" graphics, in which a location's yearly temperature and precipitation conditions since 1895 are shown as a simple row of colored stripes without dates or numbers.