The average temperature for the CONUS in September was 69.4°F, 4.6°F above the 20th-century average, making it the warmest September in the 132-year record, surpassing the previous record set in 1998 ...

Globally, September 2026 ranked as the second-warmest September on record, trailing only 2023. Global sea surface temperature departure from average reached an all-time high for any month, surpassing ...

Map of global notable weather and climate events in August 2026. The global surface temperature in August 2026 was 2.38°F (1.32°C) above the 20th-century average—the warmest August in the 1850–2026 ...

NOAA hosted the 2026 Industry Partnerships Summit at the NOAA Auditorium and Science Center in Silver Spring, MD.

Warmest on record: July 2026 averaged 76.9°F, the warmest month on record (1895–present) for the contiguous United States (CONUS). Widespread warmth: Above-average temperatures covered the entire ...

For the year, temperatures were much-above average across nearly the entire contiguous U.S., with record warm temperatures across parts of the Southwest, Deep South and from the Upper Midwest to the ...

The North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) is a model produced by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) that generates reanalyzed data for temperature, wind, moisture, soil, and ...

On an idyllic Monday night in 2009, the palm-lined coasts of the American Samoa, Samoa, and Tonga Islands looked peaceful and serene. But by early Tuesday morning, residents and tourists were struck a ...

Observations of nighttime lights are reaching their sunset at NCEI. The product, along with several others from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite instrument, move to a ...

Contiguous United States percentage area products are derived from standardized temperature and precipitation values, which are based on the U.S. Climate Divisional Dataset. Climate divisions with a ...