The Map Scroll

Jeff Masters says , "one of the most remarkable weather events of my lifetime is unfolding this summer in Russia" where the curren...

June 2010 was the hottest June on record, 1.22°F above average. So was the period of April-June, 1.26°F above average. And January through J...

The weather where I live - a large East Coast metropolis somewhere between Bridgeport, CT and Trenton, NJ - was notably warm last week, as i...

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: how much of the Northern Hemisphere is currently covered in snow, and can this informa...

While bureaucrats from around the world are in Copenhagen haggling over an arcane agreement that may have profound effects on the state of t...

El Niño is growing stronger : This image, from the NASA/JPL Ocean Surface Topography Team, is based on measurements taken from a US/French s...

The British government recently came out with a new interactive map, posted by The Guardian here , that shows the likely impacts of global w...

Yankee Magazine crowd-sources autumn: Reports are made by people (qualification: have color vision!) around the northeastern US, who write ...

Another map from that Jeff Masters post confirms something I had strongly suspected: Texas was hot in June! But then, so was the Southeast,...

From the Baltimore Sun's B'More Green blog comes news (via the Sun's Garden Variety blog ) that the US Department of Agricultur...

NASA's Earth Observatory has a map animation of global snow cover from 1999-2009. It's surprising how much of the world's land ...

New Scientist maps the global warming apocalypse . The accompanying article , by the aptly named Gaia Vince, depicts a scenario in which Ear...

A team of MIT researchers has just come out with a new projection of climate change over the course of the 21st Century . Is this a map? I ...

Weather Underground updates this map every month. It shows the temperature anomalies around the globe for January 2009 relative to the aver...

That earlier post on human migration got me curious about the climate of the ice age. What sort of a world were our ancestors encountering a...