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Even as Texas and much of the central U.S. froze, many other regions of the world were warmer than average last month.
A brilliant 22° halo and sundogs at sunrise in Goodland, Kansas on February 16, 2021, shortly after a minimum temperature of -11°F (30 degrees below normal) was recorded. (Image credit: National Weather Service Goodland)
February 2021 was the 16th warmest February since global record keeping began in 1880, 0.65 degrees Celsius (1.17°F) above the 20th century average, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI, reported March 12.
NASA rated the month as the 14th warmest February on record. The Japan Meteorological Agency has not yet released its February numbers. Minor differences in rankings often occur among various research groups, the result of different ways they handle data-sparse regions such as the Arctic.
Q&A With Lisa Goddard on Leadership in Climate Science
Lisa Goddard takes the mic during a workshop. Credit: Elisabeth Gawthrop/IRI
Lisa Goddard’s career at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) stretches back to when the institute was based on the West Coast and some of its scientists surfed on their lunch breaks (we won’t name names…).
Goddard is internationally recognized for her work in climate science, and has held several leadership positions in the field, including a seat on the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate at the U.S. National Academies of Science, and a chair position at the World Climate Research Programme’s Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change organization. She has pioneered key research on El Niño and La Niña and is also an adjunct associate professor in Columbia’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Climate Extremes, Food Insecurity, and Migration in Central America: A Complicated Nexus
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By Diego Pons
There is growing evidence that climate extremes are having a devastating impact on agriculture in Central America, affecting the livelihoods of millions of farmers and serving as a driver of migration from the region. Both droughts and floods have been shown to have serious financial impacts in many rural areas. Droughts associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon caused agricultural losses estimated at U.S. $465 million in 2014 alone. Over the last 30 years, losses associated with drought in the Central American Dry Corridor, which extends from Panama all the way up to southern Mexico, approached U.S. $10 billion, half of which were in the agricultural sector. Financial aid to help the recovery of smallholder agriculturalists and others most affected by these catastrophic climatic events, however, has been limited. The International Fund for Agricu
About 46% of the contiguous U.S. was in drought at the end of January, the most for the month since 2013.
Spain lies blanketed in heavy snow on January 12, 2021, in the wake of Windstorm Filomena, Earth’s most expensive weather-related disaster of January, with $2.2 billion in damage to Madrid alone. (Image credit: Modified Sentinel-3 satellite data from Pierre Markuse)
January 2021 was the seventh warmest January since global record keeping began in 1880, 0.80 degrees Celsius (1.44°F) above the 20th century average, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI, reported February 12.
NASA rated the month as the sixth warmest January on record, as did the European Copernicus Climate Change Service. The Japan Meteorological Agency has not yet released its January numbers. Minor differences in rankings often occur among various research groups, the result of different ways they handle data-sparse regions such as the Arctic.