In comparison to the 25 inches of snow recorded in Dover in February 1979, there were only 4–6 inches of snowfall in January 2019. Florida Noah Densmore // Shutterstock Florida - All-time highest temperature: 109° F (Monticello 5 SE on June 29, 1931) - All-time lowest temperature: -...
January precipitation for the contiguous U.S. was 2.01 inches (0.30 of an inch below average), which placed the month among the driest third of the record. Below-average precipitation occurred across much of the Rockies, Northern Tier, Great Lakes, parts of the South and the Northeast....
Indeed, the year has been marked by a record-breaking number ofbillion-dollar climate disasters, according to NOAA. That includes record-shattering heat waves in parts of China, Europe andthe American Southwest; devastating hurricanes inFloridaandMexico; ongoingwildfi...
NOAA has recorded 19 separate billion-dollar disasters from January to July of this year, including the South Fork Fire, a blaze that started mid-June in the town ofRuidoso, New Mexico, anddestroyed over 1,000 buildings. La Niña on the horizon NOAA forecasters also said Thursday there's...
Warmth-lovinghippos roamed present-day Europe, and sea levels, due to melted ice sheets, were 20 to 30 feet higher than today (much of Florida wasunderwater). Tweet may have been deleted The Eemian period -- and the ice ages before and after it -- were natural Earth processes, explainab...
Dispelling a myth that strong El Niños are notoriously dry in the Northwest, Seattle set its record wet winter, interestingly enough topping a record set during a moderate La Niña (22.77 inches in 1998-99) by almost 2 inches. Portland, Oregon, fell just shy of its record wettest winter...
.41 inches below normal and the driest since 2015. "We saw that above average precipitation was present across the Central Plains to the East Coast, while drier than average conditions were present across parts of the Northern tier, the Northeast, and across the Wouthwest and Florida," Sanche...