Heavy Northeast Rain (Including From Post-Philippe) – National Weather Outlook For October 7, 2023

by | Oct 7, 2023 | Weather

National Weather Forecast

A system in the Northeast on Saturday will produce showers and thunderstorms, with additional rain back into the Great Lakes as well due to another system across southern Canada. Otherwise, maybe a few storms are possible in far southern Texas and southern Florida – with quiet weather elsewhere.

New England will see drenching rains through the weekend – not only due to that storm across the region, but post-tropical Philippe moving in for the second half of the timeframe. Some areas could easily see 3-6” which could lead to flooding.

Philippe in the Atlantic has finally gone post-tropical but still looks to impact New England as we head into the weekend with the potential of heavy rains that could cause flash flooding.

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An Epic Fight Over What Really Killed the Dinosaurs

More from WIRED: “Think back to any dinosaur illustration you saw as a kid. The background was almost certainly one of two things: an asteroid streaking across the sky or a volcano blowing its top. (If the illustrator was feeling extra dramatic, maybe both.) A 6-mile-wide asteroid, which hit the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, obliterated any nearby dinos and filled the sky with material that plunged the planet into a species-dooming winter. But don’t sell those volcanoes short. A growing body of geological evidence is suggesting that the dinosaurs were already enduring climatic chaos before the asteroid, thanks to huge, relentless volcanism in India’s Deccan Traps. For 300,000 years before impact, and for another 500,000 after it, these volcanoes emitted vast clouds of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. Even when they weren’t actively erupting, they were doing “pre-eruptive” degassing. The CO2 heated the planet—as humanity’s emissions are doing today—and the SO2 cooled it by reflecting some of the sun’s energy back into space. The back-and-forth created a climatic whiplash that drove a mass extinction. So the asteroid wasn’t a singular Grim Reaper for the dinosaurs, but the coup de grâce that sealed their fate. At least, that’s how the theory goes.”

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