Heavy Southern Plains Rain – National Weather Outlook For December 14, 2023

by | Dec 14, 2023 | Weather

National Weather Forecast

On Thursday, an area of low pressure near the Four Corners will bring snow across portions of Colorado, New Mexico, and western Kansas, with showers and storms into the central and southern Plains. A frontal boundary near southern Florida will spark a few storms. Rain and snow will be possible in the Pacific Northwest.

Over three inches of rain will fall from southwestern Kansas into the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas through Friday.

The heaviest snow through the end of the week will be in parts of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, where the potential of 2-2.5 feet of snow exists.

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COP28 climate summit ends with deal to transition away from fossil fuels

More from CNBC: “Government ministers representing nearly 200 countries on Wednesday agreed to a deal that calls for a transition away from fossil fuels, after a previous proposal was met with heated and widespread backlash. “With an unprecedented reference to transitioning away from all fossil fuels, The UAE Consensus is delivering a paradigm shift that has the potential to redefine our economies,” the summit’s UAE presidency said on social media. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has been hosting the conference for the past two weeks against a backdrop of controversy, geopolitical conflicts and increasing extreme weather events. “We delivered world first after world first,” the UAE summit presidency said in a further social media update. “A global goal to triple renewables and double energy efficiency. Declarations on agriculture, food and health. More oil and gas companies stepping up for the first time on methane and emissions. And we have language on fossil fuels in our final agreement.” An updated proposal published by the UAE earlier Wednesday, which was agreed on after all-night discussions, called for a “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science.””

A New UN ‘Roadmap’ Lays Out a Global Vision for Food Security and Emissions Reductions

More from Inside Climate News: “As the United Nations’ annual climate summit wraps up in Dubai this week, farm and food groups are applauding the conference leadership for its intensified focus on agriculture, a major source of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions that has been overlooked in previous years. But critics have pointed to what they see as glaring flaws in the food and farming-related agreements that emerged from the nearly two-week event, saying they don’t go far enough or adequately address the livestock industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. The food industry’s heavy presence at the conference, known as COP28, didn’t sit well, either. One significant omission, some critics say, was an absence of discussion on the financial forces driving the global agriculture system—specifically the banks continuing to fund agriculture that results in deforestation, and the nearly $850 billion in government subsidies that support greenhouse gas-intensive agriculture.”

Arctic “report card” points to rapid and dramatic impacts of climate change

More from NPR: “This past summer in the Arctic was the warmest since 1900, contributing to disasters across the wider region, including flooding in Juneau, Alaska and a record wildfire season in Canada. Those are some key takeaways from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card, released today. The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the global average as a result of human-caused climate change, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels. Researchers say changes in the Arctic are an early indicator of what the rest of the globe can expect as the planet warms.”

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