A report has just been published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that provides an overview of the topics covered during the October 18-21 workshop at Meteo-France in Toulouse, France, including methods, applications, gaps in science, key technical challenges, and future goals.

Two new studies that hint at the tantalizing possibility that persistent drought conditions could be predictable one or more years in advance, using the influence of the tropical Pacific Ocean’s slow changes in temperature.

The crippling wintertime droughts that struck California from 2013 to 2015, as well as this year's unusually wet California winter, appear to be associated with the same phenomenon: a distinctive wave pattern that emerges in the upper atmosphere and circles the globe.

A new study by Hye-Mi Kim (Stony Brook University) and other researchers has found that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which changes slowly and is usually predictable many months in advance, affects how frequently atmospheric rivers make landfall along the western U.S. coast.

A new NOAA report describes high-priority recommendations to improve the way NOAA develops and operates models.