extreme weather

736 Record Highs Set This Week

736 Record Highs Set This Week

Multiple cities—from Washington, DC to Toronto to Milwaukee—smashed temperature records this week, as a record February warm spell continues to spread across the U.S. Calendar Says February, But Record Temps Feel Like August https://t.co/gIdWa3B5co @ClimateReality @climatehawk1 @SierraClub @greenpeaceusa — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) February 14, 2017 Nearly 3,000 daily maximum temperature records were set during the first […]

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    Top 10 Weather Events of 2016 (#2 Will Surprise You)

    Top 10 Weather Events of 2016 (#2 Will Surprise You)

    By Jeff Masters The top weather story of 2016: Earth had its warmest year on record (again)! While the final numbers are not officially tabulated, 2016 appears certain to be the warmest year in every major dataset scientists use to track global warmth. Scientists Say 2016 Is Hottest Year Ever Recorded https://t.co/uRy1L8T2Qa @ClimateReality @sierraclub @NRDC […]

    Louisiana Faces Faster Levels of Sea-Level Rise Than Any Other Land on Earth

    Louisiana Faces Faster Levels of Sea-Level Rise Than Any Other Land on Earth

    Louisiana—which faces faster levels of sea-level rise than any other land on Earth—could lose as many as 2,800 square miles of its coast over the next 40 years and about 27,000 buildings will need to be flood-proofed, elevated or bought out, the New Orleans Advocate reported. https://twitter.com/EcoWatch/status/456559366557016065 These dire predictions were pulled from a new […]

    Scientists Say 2016 Is Hottest Year Ever Recorded

    Scientists Say 2016 Is Hottest Year Ever Recorded

    Climate scientists are all but assured that 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded. If that sounds familiar, 2014 and 2015 were also the hottest years since record-keeping began in 1880. “2016 will break the global temperature record that was set in 2015, which broke the record that was set in 2014,” climate change scientist […]

    18 Signs That Show We’ve Reached the Tipping Point

    18 Signs That Show We’ve Reached the Tipping Point

    By Bruce Melton Our planet’s systems have a tremendous capacity to absorb punishment before they begin to show signs of degradation. Earth’s ecology self-heals like a cut on a finger. It assimilates pollution by chemical, physical and biological means—it changes pollutants into non-hazardous materials and proceeds upon its merry way as if there had been […]

    Sorry, Santa: North Pole Temps Could Climb 50 Degrees Above Normal

    Sorry, Santa: North Pole Temps Could Climb 50 Degrees Above Normal

    By Andrea Germanos Santa will likely be feeling toasty as he does his final checks on the naughty-or-nice list because temperatures at the North Pole on Thursday are forecast to be as much as 50 F above normal. Temperatures are expected to climb to near the freezing point of 32 F, computer models show. Zachary […]

    24 Extreme Weather Events Fueled by Climate Change

    24 Extreme Weather Events Fueled by Climate Change

    Global warming exacerbated two dozen extreme weather events in 2015, finds a report on extreme events and climate published by the American Meteorological Society Thursday. American Meteorological Society The findings, which examined 30 weather events in total, linked man-made climate change to incidents like “sunny day” flooding in Florida, Alaskan wildfires, heavy rains in China […]

    Fall 2016: The Warmest in U.S. Weather History

    Fall 2016: The Warmest in U.S. Weather History

    By Bob Henson The autumn of 2016 was the warmest ever observed in records going back to 1895 for the 48 contiguous U.S. states, according to data released Wednesday by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). The nation’s average September-to-November temperature of 57.63 F was a full 1.05 F above the previous autumn record, […]