Stunning Waterspout Images from Louisiana
Severe weather affected Louisiana on Wednesday, with a damaging tornado in Grand Isle, and simultaneous occurrences of multiple waterspouts over the nearshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The waterspouts — essentially just tornadoes over the water — were caught on camera by a National Weather Service employee and many others.… Read More
Why Groundwater is Another Sea Level Rise Concern
Since the 1960s, sea level has risen by about 0.38 feet, at a rate of about .008 feet per year, at Bridgeport, CT, about 20 miles southwest of New Haven. Because the land in this area is slowly sinking at the same time the sea is rising, the amount of local sea level rise is expected to be greater here than in some other parts of the country.… Read More
Twisters Past and Present: Interactive Tornado Tracker
The tracker plots tornado reports from the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., and is updated frequently to capture breaking events. This tracker shows reported tornadoes, not confirmed tornadoes. The National Weather Service conducts damage assessment surveys after tornadoes are reported to determine if a tornado actually touched down, and i… Read More
After Fukushima Nuclear Crisis, U.S. Flying Blind
There are reasons to fear that a similar scenario is playing out in the U.S., but here the most serious threat comes from sea level rise and the increasing dangers that storm-driven waves will overcome the flood defenses of coastal nuclear plants, and coastal energy facilities in general.… Read More
Climate in Tennessee is Ripe for More Monkey Business
It’s time to break out the monkey jokes: the State of Tennessee, which earned a reputation for backwardness back in the 1925 with the celebrated Scopes Monkey Trial, appears to be doing it again — on first blush, anyway. The original trial tested a law that forbade the teaching of “any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as … Read More
You Want Records? Search! Interactive Temp Tracker
In recent years, record daily highs have been outpacing record daily lows in a pattern that has been shown to be inconsistent with natural climate variability alone. So far in 2012, the daily record high to record low ratio has been 17-to-1 through March 27, for monthly record highs compared to monthly record lows the ratio has been a whopping 33-t… Read More
Heat Wave Sends Temps Soaring into Uncharted Territory
The volume of records being set during this long-duration heat wave is staggering. On March 18 alone there were 1,597 warm temperature records set or tied in the U.S., compared to just 58 cold temperature records. For the year-to-date, there have been 14,737 warm temperature records set or tied, compared to 1,296 cold records — a ratio of about 11-… Read More
It’s a Broken Record of Record-Breaking Heat
Minneapolis set another record high on Monday when the temperature hit 79°F, breaking the old record of 72°F, set in 1910. The city also set a record warm low temperature record, with a low of 63°F. For historical perspective, the typical low temperature for March 19 is 25°F. … Read More
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