1. Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across U.S.

    Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows.

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  2. Flash floods and human response

    How do people and organizations respond to extreme weather events—in particular, flash floods? Flash floods are already on average the leading cause of weather-related fatalities in the United States and second most common worldwide.

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  3. UCAR Magazine

    Snow depth and density: What’s in a foot of snow?

    Every snowfall is different, including how much water is packed into the flakes and how that changes over the life of a storm. This can make it very hard to figure out how much snow “really” falls in a given storm.

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  4. Drizzle never dampens her day

    Dione Lee Rossiter, University of California, Santa Cruz • This Ph.D. student studies clouds, especially over the subtropical ocean—the area just north and south of the tropics. She's interested in their invisible physical changes, or microphysics, and a whole lot more.

    • Weather

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  5. A snow-covered bench in Louisville, CO

    A tricky relationship: El Niño and Colorado snow

    The presence of El Niño boosts the odds of big Denver-area snowstorms, even though the region's winters as a whole aren’t substantially wetter during El Niño. It’s a good example of nuance in the relationship between El Niño and climate.

    • Climate

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