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Melting Greenland Ice – July 31, 2021
National Weather Forecast We’ll be tracking numerous areas of showers and storms as we go through Saturday, with the driest portions of the nation along the West Coast, in the Northern Plains, around the Ark-La-Tex, and into the Northeast. Monsoonal showers and storms...
Thick Wildfire Smoke Plagues Much of USA – Extreme Weather Upends Life in Western USA – More Americans Moving to Drought-Stricken Counties
Forecast Calls For Unpredictable Smoke Plumes It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. It’s not the virus, it’s the Canadian wildfire smoke. A few of us are wearing masks (indoors) at our Brainerd Lakes cabin, after air quality fell to hazardous levels yesterday. The EPA...
Western Fires – What Level of Heat Can Humans Endure – Are You Cut Out To Be a Hurricane Hunter?
This Summer 80s Are “The New Cool Front” I’m happiest when Mother Nature isn’t trying to murder me. To be alive is to live with risk. We have no active volcanoes nearby, no earthquake faults or rising seas to worry about. The biggest temperature swings are found near...
Steamy Olympics – Using Satellites and AI to Track and Predict Wildfires – Next Generation Batteries
Heat Index Alert: Hottest Day of 2021? Based on predicted heat indices today will, in all probability, feel like the hottest day of the year. Unlike June, when we saw 90s (99F on June 5) with dry air, today’s upper 90s will be accompanied by a dew point in the 70s,...
Hot Summer Weather Continues – National Weather Outlook For July 26, 2021
National Weather Forecast On Monday we’ll be watching scattered showers and storms across the Southeast, with monsoonal storms in the Southwest. A frontal boundary will help spark storms - some strong to severe - in the upper Midwest. Storms will be possible in New...
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....