Tag: extreme weather
Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – here’s...
Matt Kasson, West Virginia University
With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the...
Diagnosing ‘warming winter syndrome’ as summerlike heat sweeps into central and...
Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, University of Michigan
One of the most robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that...
Extreme cold still happens in a warming world – in fact...
Mathew Barlow, UMass Lowell
Extremely cold Arctic air and severe winter weather swept southward into much of the U.S....
Hurricane Hilary triggers Southern California’s first tropical storm warning ever, with...
Nicholas Grondin, University of Tampa
Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico’s Baja peninsula and was forecast to speed into Southern...
What is a heat dome? An atmospheric scientist explains the weather...
William Gallus, Iowa State University
A heat dome occurs when a persistent region of high...
El Niño is back – that’s good news or bad news,...
Bob Leamon, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
El Niño is officially here, and while it’s still weak right now,...
More than two dozen cities and states are suing Big Oil...
Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high...
Farmers face a soaring risk of flash droughts in every major...
Jeff Basara, University of Oklahoma and Jordan Christian, University of Oklahoma
Flash droughts develop fast, and when they hit...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
