February 8, 2024
The world just experienced its hottest January on record, continuing a run of exceptional heat fueled by climate change, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. Last month surpassed the previous warmest January, which occurred in …
January 26, 2024
Colombia declared a national disaster as wildfires spread through drought-hit forests and filled the capital, Bogota, with smoke. Environmental authorities reported 31 separate blazes on Thursday, after months of hot, dry weather caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon. Some …
January 12, 2024
Australians bracing for a return of scorching heat and wildfires are instead battling a prolonged deluge of rain across the country’s east that’s inundated homes and damaged crops from sugar to wheat. Vast areas of the country’s populous eastern states …
December 29, 2023
With a few days left to go until next year, it can be said that 2023 has officially shattered climate records. A World Meteorological Organization provisional State of the Global Climate report confirmed that 2023 is set to be the …
December 8, 2023
It’s the cusp of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, but in many places from the US to Japan, it feels more like spring — and forecasters say that’s a sign of what to expect over the next couple of months, …
December 5, 2023
California water agencies serving 27 million people will get 10% of the water they requested from state supplies to start 2024 due to a relatively dry fall, even though the state’s reservoirs are in good shape, state officials said. The …
December 4, 2023
Australia faces an increased risk of bushfires during the approaching summer, authorities warned on Thursday, with the El Niño weather pattern expected to generate hotter and drier conditions across large swathes of the country. Three years of incessant rain has …
August 29, 2023
Australia’s weather bureau said on Tuesday that sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific were rising and an El Niño weather event, which typically brings hotter, drier weather, would likely develop between September and November. El Niño is associated with …
August 15, 2023
Australia’s weather bureau said on Tuesday the El Niño weather event, associated with hotter, drier weather, was likely to hit during the southern hemisphere spring, between September and November. El Niño, characterized by elevated sea surface temperatures in the eastern …
August 11, 2023
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is increasing its prediction for the ongoing 2023 Atlantic hurricane season to “above-normal” activity. Warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures across much of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic are likely to offset the usually limiting atmospheric …