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Thumbnail image for Tools & Interactives - Planting zones shifts, 1971-2000 and 1981-2010

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.

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Thumbnail image for Tools & Interactives - Europe's rogue heatwave melts Greenland

Compare before and after images of the Greenland ice sheet. The ice sheet after the heatwave is much darker and several bright blue pools of meltwater appear to have drained while new ones have formed.

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Thumbnail image for Tools & Interactives - Hottest summer days map layers

Map containing two layers: one showing the hottest maximum temperature recorded at a station during the summer, and the other showing the week when that station's record was set.

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Thumbnail image for Tools & Interactives - Massive snows in California in 2017

Grab and drag the slider to compare the before and after images of an atmospheric river event in California in January 2017 that greatly increased mountain snowpack.

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Thumbnail image for Tools & Interactives - Earliest date of first snow

This map shows the earliest first day of snow recorded at thousands of locations in the U.S., based on Global Historical Climatology Network station data from NOAA NCEI.

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Thumbnail image for Tools & Interactives - Hurricane Harvey flooding

Grab and drag the slider to compare the before and after images of heavy rains and floods in Houston, Texas after Hurricane Harvey in August 2017.

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Thumbnail image for Tools & Interactives - Coldest and warmest first day of summer

Grab and drag the slider to compare the warmest and coldest first days of summer recorded at thousands of U.S. locations.

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Thumbnail image for Tools & Interactives - Mapping February temperature trends

Compare change in February average temperature between 1895-2016 to change in February average temperature between 1987-2016.

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