Year in review - 2023 was drier than normal The U.S. Drought Monitor shows most of our region remains in abnormally dry conditions. Total precipitation and snowfall at Dayton are tracking well below the 1991 – 2020 average.  The year 2023 will go down as a warmer and drier than normal year. The charts below show how temper ...

  El Niño contributed to a mild winter in the Miami Valley By Mike Ekberg, water resources monitoring and analysis manager If you thought the region got off easy this winter, you’d be right. And you can thank El Niño.  El Niños produce drier and warmer than normal winters El Niño affec ...

El Niño is getting a lot of media attention these days being blamed for floods, famine, and the spread of diseases. This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be one of the stronger, if not the strongest, El Niño in history. In fact, it’s drawing comparisons to the 1997 El Niño event, which is the stronge ...

   According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), June 2015 was the warmest June ever from a global perspective. The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces was the highest ever measured for the 136 years in which records have been kept. The combined average temperature across ...