Southwest Climate Blog

The Southwest Climate Blog, a new feature of the Southwest Climate Change Network Web site, will explore challenges that experts and community members in the region face in trying to understand climate variability and change and make informed decisions.

Posted by Jonathan Overpeck on January 30, 2012

Many may have already seen the video released by NASA last week, but just in case, here it is – an animation of how surface air temperatures have changed around the globe since 1880 (you can...

Posted by Jonathan Overpeck on July 22, 2011

It’s nice that the monsoon rains have come again to Arizona and the Southwest, although the monsoon season never lasts forever. Meanwhile, the bigger weather story is the American heat wave...

Posted by Jonathan Overpeck on September 16, 2010

Even though it continues to be blown out of proportion, “climategate”—the saga of the stolen emails—just keeps coming up, primarily by folks who are pushing for us to...

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Posted by Julia Cole on August 11, 2010

In a recent interview, I stated that a...

Posted by Jonathan Overpeck on July 23, 2010

January though June, 2010 has been the warmest January-June period since 1880 according NASA and NOAA (see my last post). And the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009) has been...

Posted by Jonathan Overpeck on July 13, 2010

After a relatively cool spring in the Southwest, we’ve switched to some above-normal temperatures in recent weeks, and the National Weather Service is predicting that this warm trend will...

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