Assessing the U.S. Climate in 2021

January 12, 2022Posted inClimate, weather2 Comments

The National Centers of Environmental Information (NCEI) publishes a monthly analysis of the U.S. climate as well as an annual report.  John Bateman, a meteorologist, and an NOAA Public Affairs specialist, sends out an email that summarizes the NCEI report. This article is based on the summary written by John Bateman. At the end of the article is the link to the full NCEI Report. The key takeaways:  CONUS had the fourth warmest year in recent history and 20 billion-dollar disasters were identified.

NOAA Updates the Weather Outlook for January 2022

January 3, 2022Posted inweather1 Comment

Written by Sig Silber

Here are the latest weather and drought forecasts for January 2022.  Every month on the last day of the month NOAA updates the weather forecast for the following month – in this case, January of 2022.  Also included is the summary from a recent USDA report on Irrigation by Frank Ward who is a professor at New Mexico State University.