Rounds Of Rain And Snow Out West – National Weather Outlook For December 2, 2023

by | Dec 2, 2023 | Weather

National Weather Forecast

Two main areas of precipitation will impact the nation as we head through Saturday. One across the eastern United States will bring showers and storms from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast, with mixed precipitation/snowfall in New England back into parts of the Upper Midwest. Another system will impact the Pacific Northwest with heavy rainfall and copious mountain snowfall.

Two areas of heavy precipitation are expected through the weekend – one in the Southeast and another in the Northwest. In both areas, rainfall totals of 3-6” are possible.

As we continue to see rounds of snow in the western United States through the weekend, several feet of snow could accumulate within the mountain ranges. The Sierra, unfortunately, will mostly get missed.

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Nations pledge millions to new climate damage fund at COP28, US criticized for its small contribution

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More from MIT Technology Review: “In the fall of 2018, the University of California (UC) tasked a team of researchers with identifying tree planting or similar projects from which it could confidently purchase carbon offsets that would reliably cancel out greenhouse gas emissions across its campuses. The researchers found next to nothing. “We took a look across the whole market and did deeper dives into project types we thought were more promising,” says Barbara Haya, director of the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, housed within UC Berkeley’s Center for Environmental Public Policy, who led the effort. “And we came up almost empty.” The findings helped prompt the entire university system to radically rethink its sustainability plans. In July, UC announced it would nearly eliminate the use of third-party offsets, charge each of its universities a carbon fee for ongoing pollution, and focus on directly cutting emissions across its campuses and health facilities.”

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