ForecastWatch June Wrap-up and News

June Wrap-Up

Solar and Wind Energy on the Rise in the U.S.

In a new analysis, California, Texas, and Florida are leading the country in terms of solar power, while Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma are leading in wind energy.

Solar panel installations grew more than 8 times since 2014, producing nearly 240,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2023. Wind generation produced about 425,000 gigawatt-hours last year, which was double that of the previous decade.

Together, these two renewable energy sources produced enough electricity to power more than 61 million average American homes.

NEW REPORT: Analysis of 1-to-5-day-out Global Forecasts

Our amazing analysts at ForecastWatch examined 22 different weather forecast providers to provide a holistic analysis of weather forecast performance for global forecasts made one to five days in advance for 2023 by evaluating 13 different metrics.

Each provider was given one point for each month that the provider finished in first place for a given metric at a given location. The total number of points was counted and used to rank forecast providers. By evaluating forecast accuracy on a per-location granularity, we are able to evaluate which forecast provider offers the most accurate forecasts at the most locations around the globe.

Can you guess which forecast provider was the most accurate overall globally? Find out in our blog post!

Subscribe to the ClimateWatch newsletter!

A few months ago, our parent company Intellovations LLC launched a newsletter called ClimateWatch!

The goal is to bring you the week's most pressing climate issues, impacts, trends and forecasts, groundbreaking innovations, and actionable tips in our weekly newsletter dedicated to keeping you up-to-date on climate information. In the future, the plan is to include in-depth analyses from our experts in the newsletter. 

Check out the newsletters from June:

• 🏫 Schools Overheat Due to Climate Change

• 🥵 Another Month, Another Climate Record

• 💣 Military Conflict Accelerates Climate Change

• ☀️ Will Blocking the Sun Slow Climate Change?

Goodbye, El Nino!

According to NOAA, El Niño has finally released its hold on the tropical Pacific after dominating the region for about a year. El Niño is the warm phase of ENSO, the planet’s single largest natural source of year-to-year variations in seasonal climate. It likely contributed to many months of record-high global ocean and air temperatures, extreme heat stress to coral reefs, drought in the Amazon, precipitation extremes in Africa, low ice cover on the Great Lakes, and more.

Recent observations suggest ENSO neutral conditions are now present, but it may not last long. NOAA forecasters predict that La Niña conditions will take hold by July-September.

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