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NOAA Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlooks Reports

NOAA Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlooks Reports: two-page reports on regional climate impacts with an overview of recent and forecast conditions produced by NOAA.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
2012 - Present
File Format
pdf

North-American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS)

NLDAS Drought Monitor Products: an experimental drought monitor derived from near real-time soil moisture output from both the NASA MOSAIC and NCEP Noah land surface models.

 

 

Data Coverage
North America
Period of Record
Current Conditions, Forecasts
File Format
images
Data Type
Model

Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF)

NWS WPC produces Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts (QPFs) that depict the amount of liquid precipitation expected to fall in a defined period of time. In the case of snow or ice, QPF represents the amount of liquid that will be measured when the precipitation is melted.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
2010 - Present
File Format
images
shapefile
kml
Data Type
Land-based Station

River DroughtCast

River DroughtCast is an interactive online tool that delivers current streamflow drought conditions and weekly forecasts of streamflow drought at approximately 3,000 USGS streamgages with more than 40 years of data across the lower 48 states.

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
December 2025–present (forecasts out to 13 weeks)
File Format
other
Data Type
Model