Category: Climate

Clusters of Atmospheric Rivers amp up California Storm Damages

2/1/2024 - By LAURA CASTAÑÓN. When multiple atmospheric rivers hit California back-to-back, the economic damage from resulting rain and snowfall is three to four times higher than predicted from individual storms, a Stanford study finds. The insight could help water managers and disaster planners better prepare for future impacts of climate change.… SEE MORE

Top 10 Oldest Animals on Earth in 2024

1/31/2024 - By Mahvash Kazmi. While the average human may live around 71 years, the animal kingdom hosts some remarkable exceptions that dwarf this number with their extraordinary lifespans. In nature, size often correlates with longevity, with larger animals tending to live longer because of their slower-paced metabolism and heart rates. This biological… SEE MORE

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How the Maine Coast Will be Reshaped by a Rising Gulf of Maine

1/27/2024 - By Penelope Overton. Extreme weather made more frequent and ferocious by climate change has walloped Maine in the last year, and the coastal devastation wrought by recent storms is causing many Mainers to realize that climate change is happening right now. From Kittery to Eastport, climate change came to life.… SEE MORE

Avalanches Strike Juneau, Causing Major Vessel Losses at Dock

1/25/2024 - By Carli Stewart The Juneau city manager, Katie Koester, said that Thane Road was buried under one to two feet of snow over a mile of road. Though avalanches are common in the area, the city urged people to stay out of the area in fear of the danger it… SEE MORE

July 3, 2023: An aerial view of low water levels at Woodhead Reservoir in Glossop, England, after the United Kingdom sweltered through its hottest June on record. 2023 was the world’s warmest year on record, beating the next warmest year (2016) by a record-setting margin of 0.23 of a degree F (0.13 of a degree C). (Image credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

2023 was the World’s Warmest Year on Record, By Far

1/17/2024 - By noaa.gov It’s official: 2023 was the planet’s warmest year on record, according to an analysis by scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Along with the historic heat, Antarctic sea ice coverage dropped to a record low in 2023. “After seeing the 2023 climate analysis, I have… SEE MORE

New research shows that the fastest jet stream winds will accelerate with climate change. (Image by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.)

Jet Stream Winds Will Accelerate With Warming Climate

1/7/2024 - By ucar.edu New research by the University of Chicago and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) finds that fast jet stream winds will get significantly faster by mid century because of climate change. The study, in Nature Climate Change, suggests that the fastest upper-level jet stream… SEE MORE

Percent of normal U.S. precipitation over the past 30 days (December 25, 2022, through January 23, 2023) after a series of weather events known as atmospheric rivers, fueled by tropical moisture, flooded the U.S. West with rain and snow. Places where precipitation was less than 100 percent of the 1991-2020 average are brown; places where precipitation was 300 percent or more than average are blue-green. NOAA Climate.gov image, based on analysis and data provided by the Climate Mapper website.

Climate Highlights of 2023

1/5/2024 - By HALEY THIEM This year was a busy year for our team at Climate.gov providing updated maps, graphs, stories, and deeper explanations of our planet’s changing climate. There were many weather and climate events across the globe from extreme rainfall, to record warmth, and a major ENSO transition (just to name a… SEE MORE

Three views of the 1880s silk bustle dress in which crumpled bits of paper containing a code were found. The pocket where the code was found is located under the overskirt at the right hip. (Image credit: Sara Rivers Cofield)

‘Cryptogram’ in a Silk Dress Tells a Weather Story

1/4/2024 - By noaa.gov. Sometimes a dress is just a dress. In this story, a dress becomes a kind of time travel portal, where we get to return very briefly to the Industrial Revolution and learn about the history of weather forecasting on the frontiers of North America in the 1800s. Three… SEE MORE

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Oysters: Unsung Climate Heroes for your Holiday Buffet

12/27/2023 - By Rochelle Baker. There are moments when Steve Pocock questions the wisdom of his chosen profession as a shellfish farmer. Picking oysters off a beach in the dead of night during a low winter tide, then navigating whiteout conditions to get a loaded vessel home to port, while freezing and… SEE MORE

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Climate Change is Hurting Coral Worldwide. But these Reefs off the Texas Coast are Thriving

12/26/2023 - By Jamie Stengle, LM Otero and Kendria Lafleur. OFF THE COAST OF GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Divers descending into azure waters far off the Texas coast dip below a horizon dotted with oil and gas platforms into an otherworldly landscape of undersea mountains crusted with yellow, orange and pink coral… SEE MORE

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