Anyone who listens to weather reports has heard meteorologists comment that yesterday’s temperature was 3 degrees above normal, or last month was much drier than normal. But what does “normal” mean in ...

Russ Schumacher receives funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station for research on and monitoring of Colorado's weather and ...

We all know it’s hot — and getting hotter. According to NOAA and NASA, the 10 warmest years globally since 1850 have all occurred in the past decade. In less than 200 years, when the Industrial ...

America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago. Scientists have long talked about climate change — hotter temperatures, changes in rain and snowfall and more ...

The official calculation of what constitutes “normal” U.S. climate has been updated — and to virtually nobody’s surprise, it’s a warmer picture than ever before. On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and ...