How Global Warming Made Hurricane Sandy Worse
There are three different ways climate change might have influenced Sandy: through the effects of sea level rise; through abnormally warm sea surface temperatures; and possibly through an unusual weather pattern that some scientists think bore the fingerprint of rapidly disappearing Arctic sea ice. If this were a criminal case, detectives would be… Read More
Sandy Brings Flurry of Attention to Climate Change
Finally, columnists, bloggers and politicians have not missed this sudden flurry of attention paid to climate change, after the subject was completely ignored during all three of the presidential debates. Here are a few noteworthy news stories, blog posts and op-eds that attempt to place climate change in the context of the national discussion. … Read More
Statistics Show Hurricane Sandy’s Extraordinary Intensity
What’s noteworthy about these air pressure records is that they show that the storm was even more intense than a worst-case scenario studied by MIT’s Kerry Emanuel and Princeton’s Michael Oppenheimer. They published a study in June that warned of New York City’s vulnerability to storm surge flooding, but the storm they modeled had a minimum central… Read More
Downpours From Sandy Fail to Ease Drought in U.S.
Despite the torrential rains, and in some cases heavy snows, dumped on the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states by Hurricane Sandy, the drought that has gripped much of the nation since last spring continues to plague the Lower 48 States, according to the latest report of the U.S. Drought Monitor. As of October 30, the entire continental U.S. west … Read More
A Roundup of Hurricane Sandy News Reports
In the hardest-hit regions, however, from southern New Jersey up through New York City and east along Long Island and the Connecticut coast, the story was no longer the storm itself, but rather on the causes (especially Sandy’s possible relationship to climate change) and on the grim aftermath — millions without power, tens of thousands evacuated … Read More
Hurricane Sandy Paralyzes New York, New Jersey
Hurricane Sandy knocked out power to more than 7.2 million people — 2.4 million of them in New Jersey alone — dumped up to a foot of rain in some places, and buried the higher elevations of West Virginia under two to three feet of snow. The storm was unparalleled in meteorological history for its immense geographical scope, the multitude of hazard… Read More
Eyeballing Hurricane Sandy From Space to the Sea
Hurricane Sandy is blasting the East Coast with a massive storm surge, high winds, heavy rains, and even high elevation snows. Here are some of the most compelling weather images from this storm so far.… Read More
Hurricane Sandy Walloping East Coast With Surge, Winds
During a media briefing on Monday afternoon, National Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb said the storm is on track to produce a storm tide (includes storm surge and the astronomical tide) of up to 11 feet in New York City. This could be enough to flood the subway tunnels in Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, which would severely disrupt tran… Read More
