Here’s the same data (keeping the pre-industrial 1850–1900 baseline) as warming stripes. It’s harder to see the exact temperature each year, but easier to see some of the subtle differences between datasets (which broadly agree).
Animation by @annamaps.bsky.social
Our latest image. 🌎 📈
Four maps with a perspective from above the North Pole. The top two show monthly snow cover in shades of blue for December 2025 & January 2026. Most of Arctic North America and Eurasia were covered in snow 100% of the time, with the amount of snow cover falling off at lower latitudes. The bottom two images show divergence from the 1981-2010 mean snow cover. Brown and beige shades are below normal, blues are above normal. In December snow cover America was well below normal on North America. By January it was above normal in the East, but below normal in the West. In Eurasia high latitudes had normal snow cover (i.e. persistent snow cover), while lower latitudes, including Milan & Cortina, Italy (site of the 2026 Winter Olympics) had below normal snow cover.
I made another set of maps for @climate.us with final polish by @annamaps.bsky.social
These show snow cover & snow cover difference for the past two months.
Data from the Rutgers Global Snow Lab: climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/do...
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Global warming doesn't mean "no winter". In many places, winters could warm 10, 20, or even 30°F and it would still snow. Natural climate patterns and random variability will still lead to winters that are unusually cold and snowy in some places—even as the planet overall warms. #ClimateClarity
Winter break Dark Divide trail map drawing and dreaming. Steep, remote, ancient, wild. Between the volcanoes. Nearly done with the basemap shading.
I’ve been learning a lot about hurricane formation, structure, and movement this season working on graphics and animations with Untamed Skies. youtube.com/untamedskies
New content on Climate.us.
Climate(.)gov wasn't built in a day. It wasn't even built in a year. It is a big, complicated site that we don't just want to rebuild but also improve with Climate.us.
Realistically, this is going to take some time. However, we want to take a moment to remind people what it is that we...
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...are trying to bring back.
We have already brought back the NCA5 (nca5.climate.us).
But we also want to bring back one of our most popular sections, News & Features.
This section held explainers, Q&As, stories, and graphics that explained climate science in plain language.
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Over the next few weeks we will highlight some of great things that our team plans to not only bring back but continue to update and expand upon, hopefully for years to come.
But we can’t do it without you: donorbox.org/climate-us-p...
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We’ve brought the website for the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) back. ✅
Excited about these next steps.
While we raise funds for Climate.us in fall 2025, we'll be working to stand up an improved archive of Climate(.)gov.
Currently, publicly archived copies of Climate(.)gov suffer from one of two limitations:
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As of today, the Climate.us page is live. I am energized to be a part of this effort with an extraordinary team dedicated to rescuing critical content and making sure the public has easy access to climate information.
New project.
We know that we are the new kids on the block. But rest assured, we are veterans.
We have the plan. We have the expertise. But now we need YOUR support.
Here's how you can help: donorbox.org/climate-us-p...
Good climate news today.
Concocting a collage sketch of reference imagery for an illustrated map project that’s been floating in mind for a few years. Excited to be trying a new format (a sphere!) and next I will hand draw this wild, rugged, special place and footrace that runs between three PNW volcanoes. #darkdivide
Inspiringly strong narratives and visual metaphors at play in this paper. Honored to have an illustration about relationality and traditional outrigger paddling crews included in this paper of many collaborators led by Scott Laursen. Emotion, Space and Society: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Owen has been excellent to work with!
Let’s talk about the weather for a minute or two! Congrats to Owen Shieh for launching a YouTube channel dedicated to demystifying common questions about meteorology. It’s been excellent illustrating simple visuals (like these ones). The first few Shorts are live: youtube.com/@untamedskies
Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired #Climate
Great storytelling and important information about the chemistry of wildfire smoke and human health in this new piece. Glad to have had the opportunity to help with some of the visuals, including this special zoom inset and labeling.
I love seeing U.S. government (and other authoritative scientific sources) using excellent cartographic and data visualization principles.
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Spring on the clock! 🌱
Spring has officially sprung! But did you know warmer temperatures caused the first signs of spring to arrive earlier than usual in many parts of the U.S.? Find out where and when the first signs of the season made their debut!: www.climate.gov/news-feature...
Arctic Treeline: A meditation to explore learning how to use Procreate Dreams.
Where is the last forest? Pondering this question recently on theforestfloor.substack.com/p/where-is-t...
The last forest is in the far North near the Arctic Circle, slivers of stunted life in stark Boreal form.
Our Global Climate Dashboard contains graphs and maps that are helpful in tracking climate change and natural variability over time. These datasets range from greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, sea level, Arctic Oscillation, and much more. This dashboard is also now interactive!
Fresh into brackish on its way to the big salt.
