Here's the El Niño winter forecast for the U.S. — warmer and wetter : NPR

"These seasonal predictions are key to helping you prepare and giving you a heads up to assess all the risks and how to mitigate them," said Graham…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/10/28/nx-s1-6009547/el-nino-forecast-us-winter

‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts say

Weather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war…

 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/12/super-el-nino-severe-shock-global-food-prices-lasting-into-2028-economists-warn

 

Ex-NOAA employees re-create a climate data site shut down by Trump : NPR

The new site was created by former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — the government's lead scientific agency for climate, weather and ocean monitoring — who worked on Climate.gov until they were laid off last year as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cutbacks.

 https://www.npr.org/2026/06/26/nx-s1-5869615/climate-noaa-data-trump-doge

 

Trump administration to dismantle National Center for Atmospheric Research - The Washington Post

The announcement drew outrage and concern from scientists and local lawmakers, who said it could imperil the country's weather and climate forecasting, and appeared to take officials and employees by surprise...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/12/17/trump-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/

Climate change will cost Gulf Coast tens of billions by 2050

Damage from extreme weather will cost $32 billion annually across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida by 2050 in a "middle of the road" climate change scenario, per a new Urban Institute analysis using FEMA data…

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/climate-change-extreme-weather-gulf-coast-costs 

 

Trump moves to end NASA missions measuring carbon dioxide and plant health | PBS News

The Trump administration is moving to shut down two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health, potentially shutting off an important source of data for scientists, policymakers and farmers...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/trump-moves-to-end-nasa-missions-measuring-carbon-dioxide-and-plant-health

Storms drop dangerous, flooding rain from DC to New York, inundating roads and snarling air travel | CNN

Dangerous torrential rainfall and flash flooding are underway in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast Thursday with millions at risk along the Interstate 95 corridor. It's shaping up to be another serious flood event in a summer that's been full of them...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/weather/flash-flooding-mid-atlantic-interstate-95-climate

 

A major cooldown is coming for the US, but flooding could return | CNN

But a dramatic cooldown like this always comes at a cost, and in this case it's rain and thunderstorms with a renewed risk of flash flooding for areas that have already been hit hard during a summer full of it...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/weather/cooldown-pattern-change-heat-climate 

 

How weather conspiracy theories moved from online fringes to state laws - The Washington Post

The Florida law — and Uthmeier's letter underscoring it — is the latest example in a surge of right-wing support for conspiracy theories that have spread across social media in recent years. Far-right conspiracy theorists say airplanes are leaving "chemtrails" in the atmosphere that can change the weather, harm human health and even control the minds of the population. They assert that the U.S. government is conducting cloud-seeding experiments that were responsible not only for the recent floods in Texas, but also for Hurricane Helene last year. 

None of these conspiracy theories is true. But they are nevertheless taking root in the highest offices of government...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/16/weather-modification-geoengineering-cloud-seeding-right/

Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods

Some social media users falsely claimed that the extreme weather was being controlled by the US government…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/texas-floods-conspiracy-theories

 

Tropical Depression Chantal brings major flooding to North Carolina - The Washington Post

One woman died, dozens of residents needed to be rescued from rising water, and hundreds of roads were closed as the storm moved over the central part of North Carolina...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/07/tropical-depression-chantal-brings-major-flooding-north-carolina/

 

Your Weather Forecasts Are About to Get a Lot Less Accurate – Mother Jones

“We’re becoming more blind” amid Donald Trump’s gutting of federal agencies.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-administration-cuts-noaa-national-weather-service-forecasts-forecasting-less-accurate/

 

 

How Donald Trump's climate cuts will cost US taxpayers – DW – 03/18/2025

As new EPA head Lee Zeldin promises to sink a 'dagger' into climate and clean energy initiatives, taxpayers are set to pay the price for extreme weather and the dismantling of a booming green economy…

https://www.dw.com/en/how-donald-trumps-climate-cuts-will-cost-us-taxpayers/a-71962280

 

Record bomb cyclone developing, will fuel heavy California storms - The Washington Post

This pattern is occurring on the backdrop of a North Pacific marine heat wave, which has contributed to unusual jet stream patterns this fall. Marine heat waves are expected to become more common amid a warming world...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/11/19/atmospheric-river-bomb-cyclone-california-low-pressure/

Right-Wingers EXPLODE As Dangerous Threats Over Weather Control Get WORSE

Right-wingers and conspiracy theorists spiral out of control and bombard meteorologists with alarming death threats and attacks after Republicans and Donald Trump allies, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, spread dangerous lies over the government controlling the weather for political benefit. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/rMqBfQE_Pjo?si=FhhVcrgCeeBVQW8P

Billion-dollar weather disasters are soaring again this year. Here’s why. - The Washington Post

Eleven disasters — mostly severe thunderstorm outbreaks — have produced a price tag over $25 billion in the United States, second most on record to date...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/06/11/weather-disasters-tornadoes-storms-billion-dollar/

Extreme Heat Scorches Miami in May, Worrying Experts About Summer - The New York Times

Last year was the hottest in Florida since 1985, with coastal waters reaching 90 degrees, bleaching coral and possibly contributing to the mysterious deaths of endangered sawfish. This year, forecasters expect an exceptionally high number of hurricanes, in part because the Atlantic Ocean has remained abnormally warm...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/us/miami-heat-summer-weather.html

Far-Right Trump Activist Thinks the Deep State Created the Blizzard in Iowa – Mother Jones

Loomer is alluding to a conspiracy theory about the University of Alaska's High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, which studies the ionosphere. It alleges that the project is actually a front for a top-secret government initiative to control the weather. Proponents of this wild speculation have included former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and Sandy Hook denialist Alex Jones…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/far-right-trump-activist-thinks-the-deep-state-created-the-blizzard-in-iowa/

Extreme weather displaced 43 million children in past six years, Unicef reports

Toll likely to worsen as floods, storms, droughts and wildfires intensify due to climate crisis, according to Unicef and IDMC study…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/oct/05/extreme-weather-climate-crisis-displaced-children-unicef-report

Opinion | I Lived Through Canada’s Summer Wildfire Smoke - The New York Times

The extreme weather conditions around the world are interconnected and insidiously self-accelerating, Professor Flannigan explained. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, altering the fast-flowing air currents high above the planet known as jet streams, which then cause wild fluctuations of temperature and precipitation. 

In northern Canada, the ensuing drought and heat primed the fuel and sent more hot air into the upper atmosphere to generate ever more lightning storms, which ignited the dry forest and the peat beneath it to release more carbon and more smoke to further intensify climate change around the world. And it's going to get much worse, Professor Flannigan said, especially with the onset of El Niño, the periodic rise in the temperatures of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean. "There will be more droughts, more floods, more extreme weather, more records broken."…

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/opinion/canada-wildfires-climate-change.html