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October is aiming to smoke U.S. records for dryness and warmth - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 25, 2024) |
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With less than a week to go, the strikingly sunny and arid October of 2024 may end up as the second-driest month ever recorded in the contiguous United States, based on data going back to 1895 – and a few locations may see their first completely dry month ever observed. Yet the same October that’s been heavenly for leaf-peepers, comet-hunters, crop-harvesters, and football-game-watchers may also be a hint of potential hydrologic trouble ahead.
The weekly U.S. ... Read more ...
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Nadine and Oscar overperform: three landfalls in one weekend - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 20, 2024) |
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After shocking forecasters by going from a tropical disturbance with a mere 30% chance of development to a hurricane in just 12 hours on Saturday, Hurricane Oscar has now made two landfalls in the Caribbean at hurricane strength. Oscar passed over Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas near 5 a.m. EDT Sunday morning Oct. 20 as a Cat 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds, then hit northeastern Cuba at 5:50 p.m. EDT Sunday at the same strength. By 5 a.m. EDT Monday, Oscar had slowed ... Read more ...
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A Caribbean rainmaker becomes Tropical Storm Nadine - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 18, 2024) |
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Bucking the odds during a quiet spell in the Atlantic, a sprawling disturbance east of Belize in the Northwest Caribbean was designated Potential Tropical Cyclone 15 (PTC 15) by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) at 5 p.m. EDT Friday, October 18. PTC 15 had a brief window to potentially strengthen into Tropical Storm Nadine before it moves westward into Belize and far southeastern Mexico on Saturday. On average, the 14th Atlantic named storm forms on November 19. ... Read more ...
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Odds of another October Atlantic named storm are fading fast - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 17, 2024) |
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After an early October spate of intense activity, the tropical Atlantic has settled down, and we’re watching two tropical disturbances with just low odds of developing into a named storm. There’s a good possibility that Hurricane Milton will end up being the final named storm of October. However, with a pulse of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) due to arrive in the Atlantic in early November, which will favor rising air and increased odds of tropical cyclone ... Read more ...
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September 2024: Earth’s 2nd-warmest September on record - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 15, 2024) |
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September 2024 was Earth’s second-warmest September on record behind September 0f 2023, said the European Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). Data for September from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and from NASA are not yet available, since NCEI’s headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina, was severely impacted by Hurricane Helene on Sep. 27. Helene is being blamed for 247 deaths, making it the ... Read more ...
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It’s too soon to put the Atlantic hurricane season to bed - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 14, 2024) |
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Hurricane activity in the Atlantic typically ramps down sharply by the time late October rolls around. On average, only 14% of the Atlantic season’s activity occurs from October 15 onward (as measured by accumulated cyclone energy). This year may not be so quick to turn quiet, though. One disturbance will be approaching the Leeward Islands by late week and another may take shape in the western Caribbean a few days from now.
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Life in the Appalachians once felt 'untouchable.’ Then Helene struck. - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 11, 2024) |
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You could say James Guill has been running from hurricanes for his whole life.
The New Orleans native was just two years old when Hurricane Katrina swallowed his city in 2005 and became the most costly hurricane in U.S. history, claiming 1,833 lives.
During and after the storm, Guill’s family evacuated and sheltered in Virginia for two months. Then they returned, salvaged their house, and spent nearly two more decades – enduring other life-threatening storms and evacuations – at sea level.
Guill’s mother, Terenia Urban Guill, calls her son ... Read more ...
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Puerto Rican lawyer offers free legal assistance to disaster survivors - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 11, 2024) |
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Jeanne Ortiz-Ortiz is from Puerto Rico. She was living on the island, studying for the bar exam, when Hurricane Maria struck in 2017.
After the devastating storm, she saw firsthand the legal and administrative challenges people faced – applying for relief aid, negotiating with insurance, or replacing vital documents.
Ortiz-Ortiz: “I started helping a family member whose apartment was damaged navigate FEMA’s requirements because she only spoke Spanish. And after that, I also helped my employer at the time in applying for the Small Business ... Read more ...
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Without climate change, Hurricane Milton would have hit as a Cat 2, not a Cat 3 - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 11, 2024) |
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Without climate change, Hurricane Milton would have hit Florida as a Cat 2 storm, not a Cat 3, according to the conclusions of a study by World Weather Attribution, an international scientific group. The group issued the study on October 11, just two days after Milton hit. A separate study on Hurricane Milton released the same day by researchers at the Imperial College of London found that this increase in intensity made Milton nearly twice as destructive.
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Landscapes charred by wildfire can become ground zero for floods and mudslides - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 10, 2024) |
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Earlier this year, wildfires raged near the town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, destroying more than a thousand buildings and killing two people.
Within a few weeks, the fires had been contained. But then came the rain.
Over the next few weeks, rain repeatedly poured down on the recently burned forest. The water rushed off the charred landscape, flooding the town and causing even more damage and danger to residents.
Floods and mudslides can be common after wildfires.
Wildfires destroy vegetation and coat the soil with a waxy surface, ... Read more ...
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Climate change made Hurricane Helene and other 2024 disasters more damaging, scientists find - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 09, 2024) |
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Deadly Hurricane Helene, wildfires in the Amazon, an extreme monsoon downpour in India, a heat wave during the Summer Olympics, and other dangerous and devastating weather events in 2024 were all made more likely and damaging by climate change, scientists have found.
Climate scientists quantified the link by running thousands of simulations in climate models, some that included and some that did not include the effects of human-caused climate pollution in the ... Read more ...
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Everything you need to know about wildfire smoke - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 08, 2024) |
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Climate change is supercharging heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires. Which hazard affects you the most depends on luck and geography. In the North American West and too often farther away, one of the increasingly worrisome effects is wildfire smoke.
This smoke is more than a big nuisance. It’s also a significant threat to many aspects of health – for humans but also for the atmosphere, animals, and plants. These articles can help you understand what the risks are, why they are risks, and what you can do to reduce them for yourself and your family. ... Read more ...
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Best- and worst-case hurricane scenarios for Tampa Bay - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 07, 2024) |
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The most vulnerable metropolitan area in the U.S. to storm surge damage is Tampa/St. Petersburg. That’s according to a 2015 report by Karen Clark & Company, Most Vulnerable US Cities to Storm Surge Flooding. Their 1-in-100-year storm (with a 1% chance of occurring in any given year) was a strong Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph (240 km/h) winds. Such a storm striking just north of Tampa Bay could be expected to cause $230 billion in damage (2024 USD) – just from the ... Read more ...
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Category 5 Milton poses an exceptionally serious threat to Florida’s west coast - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 07, 2024) |
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A Hurricane Watch and a Storm Surge Watch are up for much of the west coast of Florida, as Hurricane Milton has gone from tropical-storm to Category-5 strength in just over 24 hours – a spectacular and ominous feat of rapid intensification over the record-warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Milton is the Earth’s third Cat 5 of 2024, along with Hurricane Beryl in the Atlantic and Super Typhoon Yagi in the Western ... Read more ...
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Major landfalling hurricane threat setting up for Florida’s west coast - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 05, 2024) |
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Tropical Depression 14 formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico’s Bay of Campeche at 11 a.m. EDT Saturday, and appears poised to develop into Hurricane Milton, which will hit Florida’s west coast on Wednesday. This situation – which involves an unusual storm track, together with the potential for rapid strengthening – has evolved quickly and should be taken quite seriously by Floridians, especially along the West Coast.
At 11 a.m. EDT Saturday, TD 14 was located ... Read more ...
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Watching the Gulf of Mexico for tropical storm formation - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 04, 2024) |
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A broad area of low pressure over Central America, southern Mexico, and the surrounding waters is expected to interact with a stalled front and the remains of Tropical Depression 11-E from the Eastern Pacific to create a tropical disturbance capable of developing into a tropical or subtropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico next week. If such a storm did develop, the odds are low that it would become a damaging landfalling hurricane like Helene; it is ... Read more ...
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Is the idea of a “climate haven” under water? - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Oct 01, 2024) |
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Asheville, North Carolina, seemed like a good place to escape the worst of a warming world. The city’s appealing four-season climate includes summers with a typical daily high around 84°F – unusually low for the Southeast U.S. – and winters that aren’t too frigid. There’s typically plenty of moisture throughout the year, but with a mountain rain shadow that keeps Asheville a bit less wet than most of its neighbors. And the city takes climate seriously: findings from a ... Read more ...
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A still-toasty Atlantic is bristling with tropical cyclones - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 30, 2024) |
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Even as the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene across the U.S. Southeast becomes ever more vivid, the North Atlantic – now at record-warm levels for late September, topping even 2023 – has been ginning up other tropical systems of interest, one of which may be a named storm that would bear watching in the Gulf of Mexico within the next week.
Helene itself has produced more than enough trouble. At least 91 deaths have been attributed to Helene as of midday ... Read more ...
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At least 52 killed in Helene’s Southeast rampage - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 28, 2024) |
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Helene, the fourth landfalling U.S. Gulf Coast hurricane of 2024 – and by far the worst so far – has taken dozens of lives and inflicted what will likely end up being many billions in damage. Helene crashed into the Big Bend crescent along Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday night, September 26, as a Category 4 storm with top sustained winds estimated at 140 mph. Helene’s havoc continued well beyond landfall as the fast-moving storm raced across eastern Georgia, then ... Read more ...
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Four ways climate change likely made Hurricane Helene worse - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 27, 2024) |
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After a spectacular burst of rapid intensification, Hurricane Helene made landfall just east of the mouth of the Aucilla River, about 10 miles west-southwest of Perry, Florida, at about 11:10 p.m. EDT Thursday. Top sustained winds were estimated at 140 mph, making Helene a Category 4 hurricane at landfall. We’ll have much more on Helene’s many impacts - some still unfolding on Friday - in our next Eye in the Storm post.
Helene’s landfall gives the U.S. a record ... Read more ...
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Huge Hurricane Helene accelerates toward Florida - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 26, 2024) |
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Massive Hurricane Helene is rumbling north-northeastward through the Gulf of Mexico, en route to what is likely to be a devastating landfall late Thursday night in the Florida Big Bend region. The hurricane’s huge area of strong winds – hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 60 miles (95 km) from the center, and tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 345 miles (555 km) at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday - were already pushing a storm surge in excess of two feet ... Read more ...
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Fast-emerging system likely to slam Florida Gulf Coast as a dangerous Hurricane Helene on Thursday - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 23, 2024) |
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Tropical Storm Warning flags are flying for western Cuba and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a large area of disturbed weather in the western Caribbean heads toward the Gulf of Mexico and an expected landfall in western Florida on Thursday under the name Helene. Originally labeled Invest 97L, the disturbance was re-christened Potential Tropical Cyclone 9, or PTC 9, by the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, at 11 a.m. EDT Monday. The PTC designation is used for systems ... Read more ...
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Hurricane John expected to strike southern Mexico on Tuesday - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 23, 2024) |
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A potentially devastating hurricane heading for Mexico has spun up in the Pacific. As of 11 a.m. EDT Monday, John was quickly gaining strength about 105 miles south of Punta Maldonado, which is located on Mexico’s south coast near the border of Guerrero and Oaxaca states about 80 miles east-southeast of Acapulco. John was drifting north at just 3 mph (4.8 kmh). Update: At 11 p.m. EDT Monday, John was just offshore about 15 miles west of Punta Maldonado, moving north ... Read more ...
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A large Central American low could spawn Helene - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 20, 2024) |
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A sprawling low-pressure system known as a Central American Gyre is developing over Central America and will bring heavy rains to much of Central America and southern Mexico over the next week. The Central American Gyre is likely to bring seven-day rainfall amounts in excess of a foot (305 mm) to Pacific-facing coasts of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, causing life-threatening flash flooding and ... Read more ...
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Video: Can a colossal extreme weather event galvanize action on the climate crisis? - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 19, 2024) |
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Since the summer of 1988, there have been many extreme weather and climate events – each consistent with human-caused warming – that, in another world, would have triggered the U.S. to make the transformational change needed to address the climate crisis. In this video version of this post, meteorologist Jeff Masters reviews those events and discusses the implications of our failure to take transformational action.
We help millions of people understand climate ... Read more ...
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Epic floods are wreaking havoc from Africa to Asia to Europe - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 18, 2024) |
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Drawing on a record global supply of atmospheric moisture – and with a jet stream “stuck” in a mode identified in climate change research – a series of catastrophic floods has been slamming far-flung parts of the Northern Hemisphere in September.
One link among all of these systems: Warmer global temperatures allow more water to evaporate from oceans and intensify rainfall, even as they also suck moisture from parched landscapes where it’s not raining (the ... Read more ...
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These are not your parents’ wildfires - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 16, 2024) |
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If you hadn’t been paying particular attention, and depending on where you live, you might assume that wildfire is just wildfire. You might think that fire is just like it’s always been, and that it’s either terrible (Smokey Bear) or natural and healthy (regenerative). But none of this is true. Indeed, the story of wildfire in our times keeps developing. Here’s the situation as of late summer 2024 - with a focus on wildfire behavior.
Global overviews:
Regional overviews:
Fire behavior overviews:
Firestorms and other specific behavior ... Read more ...
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Tropical Storm Gordon embarks on a slow Atlantic crossing - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 13, 2024) |
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Tropical Storm Gordon became the seventh named storm of the 2024 Atlantic season at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, September 13, launching what looks to be a long, slow journey across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic – assuming that Gordon survives the trek. In records spanning the period 1991-2020, the seventh named Atlantic storm of the year arrives on average on September 3, so Gordon developed more than a week later than the typical “G” storm.
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Earth has its hottest August and hottest June-August on record - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 12, 2024) |
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August 2024 was Earth’s warmest August in analysis of global data going back to 1850, and the past three months (summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere) were the warmest June-to-August period on record, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported September 12. August 2024 was 0.01 degrees Celsius (0.02°F) warmer than August 2023. Both came in well above all preceding Augusts, and the past 11 Augusts have all ... Read more ...
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Hurricane Francine nears landfall in Louisiana - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 11, 2024) |
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Hurricane Francine is closing in on landfall in central Louisiana, expected to occur Wednesday afternoon or evening as a Category 1 storm with 90 mph (145 kph) winds. Francine closed off an eyewall overnight, enabling it to take advantage of record-warm ocean temperatures and intensify into a top-end Category 1 storm with 90 mph winds at 2 a.m. EDT Wednesday. However, high wind shear is now affecting the hurricane, and Francine is not expected to intensify any further ... Read more ...
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Tropical Storm Francine heads for Louisiana - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 10, 2024) |
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A Hurricane Warning and a Storm Surge Warning are up for most of the coast of Louisiana as Tropical Storm Francine heads toward landfall. Francine is expected to intensify into a hurricane by Tuesday evening, then level off in strength or weaken before making landfall as a Category 1 storm in Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon or evening.
At 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Francine was located 425 miles (690 km) southwest of Morgan City, Louisiana, moving north-northeast at 8 ... Read more ...
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A public library became a haven after a flood - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 09, 2024) |
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On a Saturday in late June, the town of Spencer, Iowa, experienced devastating floods that damaged thousands of buildings.
But fortunately, one crucial building remained unharmed – the public library.
Red Wing-Fuchsen: “We were more or less open for regular business that Monday.”
Sarah Beth Red Wing-Fuchsen directs the Spencer Public Library.
She says that in the immediate aftermath of the floods, the library became a place where people could escape the heat, charge their phones, and access the internet, all for free.
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Gulf of Mexico disturbance may become a hurricane on Wednesday - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 09, 2024) |
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Tropical Storm Watches are up for the coast of Northeastern Mexico just south of the Texas border as a tropical disturbance located over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico’s Bay of Campeche heads toward an expected landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border on Wednesday. Further watches and warnings can be expected to be issued for portions of the Texas and Louisiana coast on Monday. The National Hurricane Center, or NHC, christened the disturbance Potential Tropical Cyclone ... Read more ...
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Hurricane Watches go up for Louisiana as Tropical Storm Francine forms - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 09, 2024) |
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A Hurricane Watch and a Storm Surge Watch are up for most of the coast of Louisiana as Tropical Storm Francine, currently located over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico’s Bay of Campeche, heads toward an expected landfall late Wednesday. Francine’s appearance on September 9 ends an extraordinarily long period without an Atlantic named storm (see Tweet below) and comes 11 days after the usual August 29 appearance of the season’s sixth named storm.
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A new era in hurricane tracking begins - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 06, 2024) |
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It was no normal mission.
Many of the Hurricane Hunters on the flight were seasoned, accustomed to taking on the world’s most powerful storms. Some had notched hundreds of hurricane eyewall penetrations – badges of honor coined eyewall “pennies.”
But even for the veterans, this one felt different.
It was after midnight in late September 2022 as the crew of 17 – engineers, scientists, and pilots – took off from a Houston runway for a flight into ... Read more ...
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Powerful Typhoon Yagi churns across Northwest Pacific en route to southern China - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 05, 2024) |
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Typhoon Yagi carried out a spectacular burst of rapid intensification in the Northwest Pacific on Wednesday, bringing it from a category-1-equivalent to a dangerous category 4-equivalent in less than 12 hours. Yagi’s 1-minute sustained winds reached 150 mph at 8 p.m. EDT Wednesday, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. This qualified it as a super typhoon (1-minute sustained winds of at least 15o mph), and made it the Northwest Pacific’s strongest tropical ... Read more ...
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A placid Atlantic continues to perplex seasonal hurricane forecasters - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Sep 03, 2024) |
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The tropical Atlantic is expected to continue its highly unusual slumber this week, in what is typically one of the peak weeks for hurricane activity. At 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center was not tracking any named storms, and was only giving 7-day odds of development of 30% to two tropical disturbances – one in the central Caribbean, and one off the coast of Africa. Both had only lukewarm enthusiasm for development from the 0Z and 6Z Monday runs of the ... Read more ...
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Five ingenious ways people could beat the heat without cranking the AC - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Aug 30, 2024) |
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Every summer brings a new spate of headlines about record-breaking heat – for good reason: 2023 was the hottest year on record, in keeping with the upward trend scientists have been clocking for decades.
With climate forecasts suggesting that heat waves will only become more frequent and severe in the future, it’s increasingly clear that the world needs new ways to adapt to heat – in addition to eliminating climate-warming pollution.
Heat waves pose a serious (and costly) public health risk, given that extreme heat can prompt heat exhaustion, ... Read more ...
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Labor Day weekend will start out restful for the Hurricane Hunters. Then what? - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Aug 30, 2024) |
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Labor Day weekend is typically one of the busiest times for hurricanes in the Atlantic, as we approach the September 10 midpoint of the season. But after an early-season burst of activity, which included the Atlantic’s earliest-ever Cat 5 (Beryl, on July 2), the tropics will be eerily quiet to start Labor Day weekend, with no active storms to track as of Friday. However, there is the potential that the season’s sixth named storm, Francine, could form in the Caribbean ... Read more ...
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Where are the hurricanes? The Atlantic’s late-August nap may lead into a stormy September - Yale Climate Connections - Weather (Aug 27, 2024) |
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After an oddly quiet couple of weeks, things are starting to change in what’s been long projected to be a frenzied Atlantic hurricane season. The last named system in the Atlantic, Hurricane Ernesto, became extratropical on August 20 while racing east of Newfoundland, and it’s very unlikely we’ll have the next named storm before Labor Day weekend. However, long-range models are becoming increasingly confident that the deep Atlantic tropics will soon spawn a system worth ... Read more ...
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