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Jul 6, 2011 | Climate Matters, Climate Review

NOAA’s New Climate Normals

The standard climate normal, or the 30-year average of weather conditions, is changing. Most anomalies and comparisons to normal conditions have been discussed using the average conditions between 1971 and 2000, but NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has unveiled the “new normals” on July 1.

Sep 3, 2010 | Climate Matters, Climate Review

2009 State of the Climate Report Released in BAMS

The State of the Climate Report is a yearly supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) that summarizes the global and regional climate for each calendar year. The 2009 report was released in July (Arndt et al., 2010).