Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

Vibrant art deco hotels along the Ocean Drive on a sunny day in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo credit: Getty Images) Did you know that Miami and Orlando have different climates? Yes, while many ...

Discussion about climate classifications usually revolves around geographic location at a broad scale. One of the most popular climate classification systems, the Köppen system, divides earth into ...

It's no secret that Phoenix is hot, but late summer and the start of fall were scorchers, even by Valley of the Sun standards. Between Sept. 23 and Oct. 14, Phoenix set daily record high temperatures ...

Severe drought conditions are expanding across the region, with Cabarrus, Stanley and Union counties now facing extreme ...

David Easterling, a NOAA climate scientist, didn’t think much about the rainfall forecast until his wife called him on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 24, asking whether he’d seen the weather outlook.

TOLEDO, Ohio — April started off with heavy rainfall, and May has followed suit with over two inches of precipitation in the first week of the new month. How does this May stack up to previous years, ...

Kentucky saw a huge amount of rainfall in the span of a few days in early April, which experts say is in line with the region's shift toward more intense rainfall. Heavier rainfall is driving flood ...