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Another Freak Deluge: 24″ Rain in Less Than 24 Hours – Heat is America’s #1 Weather Killer – Summer of Wild Extremes Worldwide
Slight Severe Threat Today - 90s Return I have tried to connect the dots between a warming climate and increasingly extreme weather events for nearly 25 years. This summer has been a sobering Exhibit A. Drought in Minnesota and 40 percent of the USA at last count....
Heatwave Building Again – Extreme Floods Hit Nigeria and China – Wet Bulb Warning
Another Surge Of Heat Is Imminent It turns out 1-6 month climate models may do a better job predicting heat and drought than floods. Back in March and April I mentioned that a consensus of NOAA’s climate models were predicting a hotter, drier summer - a forecast that...
Heavier Gulf Coast Rain – National Weather Outlook For July 21, 2021
National Weather Forecast On Wednesday, a frontal boundary snaking from the Northeast to the Northern Plains will help produce at least scattered showers and thunderstorms. Another frontal boundary across the Southeast and Gulf Coast with an area of low pressure...
Heat Builds Again – Importance of Wet Bulb Temperatures – Las Vegas is America’s Driest Big City
Minnesota Slipping Into a Deeper Drought Historic floods grip Europe. New England floods while the west burns and smoke turns Minnesota’s sky into L.A. on a bad day. The water cycle is on fast-forward. Wets are trending wetter and dries are getting drier. We’ve always...
Southeast Rain And Northern Plains Heat – National Forecast For July 19, 2021
National Weather Forecast A very slow-moving boundary across the Deep South and Southeast will lead to rounds of showers and storms with ample moisture in place as we head into Monday. An area of low pressure in New England will also bring rain chances. Some monsoonal...
Tracking Storms And Heat – National Forecast For July 17, 2021
National Weather Forecast On Saturday, an area of low pressure working into the Northeast will produce heavy showers and thunderstorms and potentially damaging winds as well. A front extending southwestward from that low will continue to produce storm chances back...