CBS • 2021-05-05

NOAA's "new normal" climate report is anything but normal

Updated maps show how U.S. temperatures and rainfall patterns are shifting – and reveal some clues about the future.

NYPost • 2021-05-05

America’s new normal: A degree hotter than two decades ago

The new normal annual US temperature is 1.7 degrees hotter than the first normal calculated for 1901 to 1930.

AP • 2021-05-04

America's new normal: A degree hotter than two decades ago

America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago. Scientists have long talked about climate change — hotter temperatures, changes in rain and snowfall and more extreme weather — being the “new normal...

Axios • 2021-05-04

NOAA reveals "new normals" for U.S. climate as average temps are heating up

Higher average temperatures highlight how quickly climate change is affecting Earth.

Earther • 2021-05-04

NOAA’s New Climate Normals Show the U.S. Has Never Been Hotter

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants us to know it’s not the 1980s anymore. On Tuesday, it announced new 30-year averages for temperature and precipitation. Unsurprisingly, the “new normal” is hotter.