It's too soon to tell whether this winter's double-dip La Niña will become next winter's three-bean salad. But our blogger tells us what's on the menu this spring.
Below-average precipitation across the West led to an expansion of drought.
The March 2022 climate outlook favors a warmer-than-average month for the eastern/south-central US, a cooler-than-average month for the western/north-central US, and a wetter-than-average month for the Great Lakes.
How do El Niño and La Niña affect atmospheric rivers?
It was the sixth-warmest year on record for planet Earth.
Hop in as our ENSO blogger takes you on a road trip through the February 2022 ENSO forecast.
The month brought a warm West and a cold East. Amid widespread dryness, wetter-than-average conditions occurred in Colorado, the Ohio Valley, and the Mid-Atlantic.
The February 2022 climate outlook favors warmer-than-average temperatures across the southern and eastern U.S., with cooler and wetter conditions favored across the north. Out West, a drier-than-average month is forecast.
A high-level explainer of the jet stream. (Ha ha..."high-level"...get it?)
Second-highest in number and third-highest in costs, 2021 was another extreme year for weather and climate disasters in the United States.