Heat Wave Bakes West, Sets Marks & Hits High Note of 113
During the past seven days, 746 daily recordhigh temperatures were set or tied, along with 400 daily record=high minimum temperatures, according to the National Climatic Data Center. More impressive is the fact that 99 monthly record-high temperatures were set or tied during this same period, along with 22 monthly record-high minimum temperatures.… Read More
Image of the Day: Heat Wave, What Heat Wave?
While two-thirds of the country has experienced an unprecendented heat wave, heavy snow fell on central and eastern Arizona as well as parts of New Mexico over the weekend. The storm, resulting in school cancellations, road closures and power outages, caused the National Weather Service to issue a winter storm warning for Flagstaff and the … Read More
Southwest Turns Anxious Eye to Shrinking Lake Mead
During the past three years, the level of Lake Mead has followed a boom-and-bust cycle, dropping to a record low in 2010 during an intense drought, then recovering during 2011 thanks to record mountain snowfall, and now dropping again in the midst of a dry winter.… Read More
Freak Wind Storm Wallops Western States
Historically, Santa Ana winds have been associated with major wildfire outbreaks, but in this case there were only scattered fires reported.… Read More
Hot Summer of 2011 Rewrites Record Books
Using our record temperature tracker (see below), we found that June, July, and August saw more warm temperature records tied or broken than any other summer in the past decade.… Read More
Climate Change and the Phoenix Dust Cloud — What’s the Connection?
Climate change is expected to make the Southwest warmer and drier, but it could also promote the North American Monsoon. What that means for massive dust clouds, or haboobs, though, they're still not sure. … Read More
Global Warming Goes Nuclear
Thus, the U.S. currently faces a bizarre display of what happens when nuclear energy/weapons issues and the climate crisis meet. If we're lucky, the results won't be too damaging - this time.… Read More
Track the Nation’s Rivers: Missouri River Floods and Southern Drought
In Lano, Texas, the town’s sole source of water, the spring-fed Lano River, is expected to soon run dry.… Read More
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