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  Record-Breaking Winds Confirmed for Hurricane Melissa. NSF UCAR has the post; here's an excerpt: "As Hurricane Melissa approached Jamaica last month, a NOAA Hurricane Hunter airplane dropped a fleet of weather instruments called dropsondes into the depths of...

Warmer, Thirstier Air Worsens Drought. Climate scientists have warned that dries will get drier and wets will get wetter, and that is what we are seeing as theory becomes reality. Here's an excerpt from a Climate Central post: "The relentless rise in heat-trapping...

5 Key Ingredients That Led To Deadly Texas Flooding. Forbes does a good job breaking down the factors in creating a 1-in-500 to 1-in-1000 year flood over the Hill Country of Texas: "It has been a week since the catastrophic flooding in Texas Hill Country. The death...

What Makes a 1-in-1000-Year Storm, Really? Some great context here from a story courtesy of Washington University in St. Louis: "...Global warming is increasing the frequency of extreme precipitation events, including those events known as 1-in-1,000-year storms or...

Windiest Start to Spring in Nearly 50 Years. Ben Noll reports on the unusually windy conditions in March and early April at The Washington Post: "...Data shows it has been the windiest start to spring in nearly 50 years — or since 1977 — according to wind anemometers...