Extreme weather including droughts and flash floods looming as forecasters say powerful heating is underway in the Pacific ...

A new Rice University study is shedding light on a long-debated question: Can climate variability influence the risk of armed ...

Millions of Americans are bracing for a wave of stagnant weather this week with the potential for soaring temperatures and ...

Seasonal models are predicting an El Nino climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more ...

Weather shapes daily life in ways most people take for granted - until it doesn't. One afternoon you're sipping coffee on a porch, and the next, a tornado is ripping apart a neighborhood three ...

There used to be a reliable rhythm to the year. Winter arrived, stayed its course, and gave way to spring. Summer built slowly, peaked, and retreated. For most of recorded human history, this cycle ...

Farewell La Niña — hello, El Niño? Large-scale Pacific Ocean climate patterns are in the process of changing places, with La Niña likely to give way to El Niño over the next few months, according to a ...

NOAA and Jennifer A. Francis, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, and Stephen J. Vavrus, Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Geophysical Research ...