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Forecasts and Assessments

Hazards Assessment - From Tuesday-Friday, the CPC issues an assessment of weather- and climate-related hazards to the United States for the next three to fourteen days.

ENSO Assessment: Weekly Update - Each Monday the CPC updates a PowerPoint presentation on the recent evolution, current status and predictions of conditions in the tropical Pacific related to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle.

Drought Assessment - On each Thursday, the CPC, together with the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center issues a weekly drought assessment called the United States Drought Monitor. The Monitor provides a consolidated depiction of national drought conditions based on a combination of drought indicators and field reports. The CPC issues the Seasonal United States Drought Outlook each month in conjunction with the Thursday release of the long-lead temperature and precipitation outlooks near the middle of the month.

Degree Days Assessment - Each Monday, the CPC issues the weekly Degree Day Assessment, which reviews temperature and degree day statistics for the heating or cooling season to date, as well as the past week, and provides an outlook for the coming week.

Climate Assessments - Technical review of global climate variations and their global impacts on seasonal and annual time scales.