extreme weather, Tag

While Hurricane Irma barrels through the Caribbean towards the United States mainland, another two potentially powerful storms are waiting in the wings...

by Risk Frontiers July 31, 2017 Professor Roger Pielke Jr (University of Colorado Boulder) Roger is a long-term Research Fellow of Risk Frontiers and recently it was our pleasure to be able to host him, once again, in Sydney...

By Rud Istvan A sound bite summary* The climate consensus now has two derogation levels for those who disagree. Climate ‘contrarians’ like Bjørn Lomborg disagree about mitigation policies. Climate ‘deniers’ like...

Measuring the human impact of weather WMO issues new records of weather impacts in terms of lives lost ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced today world records for the highest...

From the INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and the “it’s called weather” department. In recent years, Arctic warming and extreme events have attracted widespread attention of...

This Saturday is Earth Day, and while it's a time to celebrate our planet, it's also a prime opportunity to take a closer look at the serious environmental issues we're facing and the solutions that need to be put in place...

Guest essay by Alberto Z. Comendador In a recent article I discussed the apparent increase in tornadoes in the US since systematic reporting began, in the early 50s. I showed how, if one looked at the year-on-year change...

The American southwest is battling extreme temperatures and blazing wildfires. The National Weather Service issued heat advisories - and in some cases excessive heat warnings - in California, Arizona, and New Mexico as temperatures...

Dr. Judith Curry tips me to this new study in GRL: Unreliable climate simulations overestimate attributable risk of extreme weather and climate events Omar Bellprat, Francisco Doblas-Reyes Abstract Event attribution aims...

In response to the impending snow storm bearing down on the Northeast, Washington D.C. Mayor Mayor Muriel Bowser has issued a warning that the "major storm has life and death implications, and all the residents of the District...

Nowadays, it seems that there's always some sort of weather related emergency happening around the the world. Whether it’s a snow storm, wild fire, flood, hurricane, or tornado, extreme weather can find us when we least...

For the first time in 61 years, a hurricane has formed in the Atlantic Ocean. Subtropical storm Alex formed near the Azores on Wednesday and was rapidly upgraded to hurricane status. The National Hurricane Center has issued...

If you live in North America, you may have heard about the upcoming El Niño season. Predicted to be one of the strongest on record, the powerful weather event will flip the script on the extreme weather patterns Americans...

Wait til you see what Lance Pidgeon has found. He was looking at the BOM website temperature archive maps of Australia for early last century (using AWAP data). He was wondering how the Bureau of Meteorology could possibly...

With the signs of climate change becoming harder and harder to ignore every day, we tend to think of it as a 21st century problem. However, in a new study, a team of researchers has revealed when and where the first real...