Climate Program Office

"The NOAA?Climate Program Office (CPO)?Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) program?is excited to announce eight new awards totaling $2,395,476 that will build the nation’s climate resilience.?Through these awards, universities, other research institutions, and agency partners across the United States will conduct newly-funded projects in partnership with NOAA programs, laboratories, research centers, and stakeholders." https://lnkd.in/ekRNYP5C

"Today, the?Center for Heat Resilient Communities?(CHRC) launched the application period for communities across the U.S. to get support to develop Heat Resilience Roadmaps?as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. Funded through the Inflation Reduction Act, up to 10 selected communities will receive $10,000 and technical assistance to help them determine and communicate the impacts of extreme heat in their communities, assess their capacity to respond and design a locally tailored blueprint for heat resilience." https://lnkd.in/eFZ8PbEh.

"Transportation sector officials will have easier access to climate and environmental information, along with technical assistance, thanks to a new memorandum of understanding signed today by NOAA and the?U.S. Department of Transportation?(DOT). This collaborative agreement comes at a time when extreme weather, sea level rise and flooding are taking a significant toll on our nation’s highways, bridges, rail lines and ports." https://lnkd.in/eGj3KQfY

"The average temperature of the contiguous U.S. in October was 59.0°F, 4.9°F above average, ranking second warmest in the 130-year record. October precipitation for the contiguous U.S. was 0.95 inch, 1.21 inches below average, tying for second driest with October 1963." https://lnkd.in/euDkC_48

"Released in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) includes an?Art × Climate Gallery. The gallery collection features the work of 92 artists, selected from more than 800 submissions. This art may only be reproduced or re-used in connection with the Fifth National Climate Assessment. Any other use must be negotiated with the author." https://lnkd.in/eQAQm9t6

Interested in working with the NIHHIS Centers of Excellence on local heat monitoring and resilience strategies? Join an informational webinar on November 21st at 4:00 p.m. ET to learn more about the Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring and the Center for Heat Resilient Communities and how your community can apply. Register today! https://lnkd.in/eGGsC_-Q

CPO's Climate and Fisheries Adaptation Program, in partnership with the Ocean Acidification Program and Sea Grant, will be hosting a webinar tomorrow. It will cover adaptation in Alaska. Register today! https://lnkd.in/epw6eBbp

"There’s a?57% chance?La Ni?a will develop soon. This is late for La Ni?a to arrive, and it’s very likely to be a weak event at most. However, even a weak event can influence temperature, rain, and snow patterns across the world. Today, we’ll take a tour through current conditions in the tropical Pacific and consider some of the things that might be interacting with La Ni?a’s development." https://lnkd.in/eY8EWX2C

"Helene roared ashore Florida’s coast in late September 2024 as a Category 4 hurricane. But arguably the worst-hit area was hundreds of miles north, across the southern Appalachian Mountains. A deluge of rainfall over a 4-day period, September 25 through September 28, 2024, turned trickling creeks into roaring rivers. Rivers overflowed their banks, and washed out entire mountain towns, neighborhoods, and roads." https://lnkd.in/ekHfSzVb

"Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020-2022, according to a new study by UCLA, NOAA and?CIRES?scientists." https://lnkd.in/etv7CftF