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Climate Monitoring

Our Mission

Welcome to Climate Monitoring at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. Our mission is to monitor and assess the state of the Earth's climate in near real-time, providing decision-makers at all levels of the public and private sectors with data and information on climate trends and variability including perspectives on how the climate of today compares to the past. Use the menu on the left to navigate our available products.

Contiguous U.S. Highlights

standard | metric
April
2013		 Value Rank Decadal
Trend
Temperature 49.66°F 9.81°C 23rd Coolest +0.10°F0.05°C
Precipitation 2.90" 73.66 mm 19th Wettest +0.01"0.34 mm
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Global Highlights

standard | metric
April
2013		 Anomaly Rank
Land +1.27°F +0.71°C 17th Warmest
Ocean +0.80°F +0.44°C 7th Warmest
Land+Ocean +0.93°F +0.52°C 13th Warmest
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U.S. Drought

Popular Products

State of the Climate
National Overview
Global Analysis

Temperature, Precipitation, and Drought
Monthly Temp and Precip Ranks
U.S. and Global Time Series
U.S. Drought Portal
U.S. Drought Monitor