The Marshall Fire near Boulder, Colorado, raced with astonishing speed across thousands of acres. Some of the seeds of the destruction were sown last spring.

A cool, wet January is slightly favored across much of the North, with a warm, dry month favored for the South. Elsewhere, there are even chances for any outcome.

Summary: Hurricanes, increasingly powerful storms, and rising sea levels are already harming human health, ecosystems, water and food supplies, and critical infrastructure in the US Caribbean, with underserved communities suffering disproportionate impacts. Effective adaptation to support resilience in the region could be enhanced by decentralization, shared governance, and stronger partnerships across the Caribbean region and the US mainland.

Continental System for High-resolution prediction on Earth-to-Local Domains (C-SHiELD) combines a global view of weather patterns with the ability to focus on regional and local weather. This helps meteorologists better predict smaller extreme storms over the continental United States.

Researchers have gained new insights about a marine heatwave in the Northwest Atlantic in 2017. Their newly published study shows how circulation patterns likely influenced the event

Ariane Arias-Ortiz discusses her journey to her current career.

Summary: Explore on-the-ground examples of communities improving pedestrian and bicycle networks as co-benefits to building resilience.

Use this interactive map to browse a collection of animated gifs showing monthly sea level at U.S. tide-monitoring stations over their lifetimes.

Spectacular footage from inside a hurricane; a major ocean mapping milestone; new insights on the continued impacts of climate change, and much more. As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a look back at a few of our biggest research stories of the last 12 months

Failed monsoon rains that reignited the southwestern U.S. drought. A spring heat wave in western Europe. Intense Siberian wildfires. Scientists say human-caused climate change made these extreme weather events more likely, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).