José Argomedo, a farmer living outside Maullín, Chile, was out riding his horse on May 22, 1960, when he felt the earth begin to shake. Nearing the height of the Cold War, Argomedo initially mistook ...

For the year, temperatures were above average from the West Coast to the Gulf of Mexico and from Florida to New England and into the Great Lakes. Florida and Rhode Island ranked fifth warmest while ...

Season-to-date snowfall was two or more feet below average across portions of the northern Plains and Upper Midwest, and above average downwind of the Great Lakes, in portions of the West and in parts ...

Temperatures were above average over much of the globe, but much below average over the United States, Greenland and far eastern Russia. Eurasian snow cover extent and Arctic sea ice extent both ...

A slow-moving, powerful storm system dumped heavy snow across much of the central Appalachians from November 22 to 30, 1950. Known as “The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950,” the system blanketed areas ...

New climate summaries from NOAA offer up-to-date, local perspectives on climate in each state, covering the entire United States plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The new State Climate ...

According to NOAA scientists, the global surface temperature for 2022 was the sixth highest since record keeping began in 1880. In a separate analysis of global temperature data also released today, ...

People have used Earth’s magnetic field for navigation since ancient times. Magnetic navigation has continued to improve alongside transportation technologies so that we now use magnetic models in ...

Use the form below to select from a collection of monthly summaries recapping climate-related occurrences on both a global and national scale.

The Precipitation - PERSIANN Climate Data Record (CDR) is a daily, quasi-global precipitation product that spans from 1982–present. Coverage extends from 60° S–60°N and 0°–360° longitude at 0.25° ...

Global image of daily NDVI. This dataset contains gridded daily Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from the NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer ...