A new NOAA study published today in the journal Science Advances about four decades of tropical cyclones reveals the surprising result that reducing particulate air pollution in Europe and North America has contributed to an increase in the number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin and a decrease in the number of these… Continue reading Report: Reducing Air Pollution in North America & Europe Contributes to More Hurricanes
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U.S. Coastline to See Up to a Foot of Sea Level Rise by 2050
The United States is expected to experience as much sea level rise by the year 2050 as it witnessed in the previous hundred years. That’s according to a NOAA-led report updating sea level rise decision-support information for the U.S. released today in partnership with half a dozen other federal agencies. The Sea Level Rise Technical… Continue reading U.S. Coastline to See Up to a Foot of Sea Level Rise by 2050
U.S. Hit with 18 Billion-Dollar Disasters So Far This Year
The United States saw an unprecedented 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first nine months of the year, according to scientists with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Not only was September 2021 quite warm, but it also brought with it devastating impacts from four of the 18 disasters: flooding from Hurricane… Continue reading U.S. Hit with 18 Billion-Dollar Disasters So Far This Year
NOAA Announced New Climate Normals
The new climate normals released by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday reveal that weather across the US is warming. The current normals data set, which represent the average temperature, precipitation and rainfall for 1991 through 2020, highlight that most of the country has warmed compared to normals for 1981 through 2010, except for… Continue reading NOAA Announced New Climate Normals
2020 Ties for Hottest Year on Record, NASA Says
Rising temperatures last year capped the world’s warmest decade in modern times, federal climate scientists said Thursday. In a new climate study, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ranked 2020 in a dead heat with 2016 as the warmest year since official record-keeping began in 1880. The record-tying warmth came despite a cooling La Niña… Continue reading 2020 Ties for Hottest Year on Record, NASA Says
Record Hurricane Season Tallies More than $60B in Damage: Report
The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season shattered records across the board of meteorology, but one record it didn’t break was the cost of damages. Regardless, the outlier year is still responsible for a whopping total estimated between $60-65 billion in damages to the United States, according to an AccuWeather report. “AccuWeather’s estimate includes all losses and… Continue reading Record Hurricane Season Tallies More than $60B in Damage: Report
2020: Strangest Year of Atlantic Hurricane Seasons Comes to An End
Like pretty much everything this year, the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season was an abnormality not ever seen before by meteorologists and hurricane specialists. As the official final day of hurricane season — Nov. 30 — arrives, forecasters have tallied 30 named storms, the most ever recorded; the next closest with 28 systems of tropical storm… Continue reading 2020: Strangest Year of Atlantic Hurricane Seasons Comes to An End
Storms Projected to Hit Gulf Coast in ‘One-Two Punch’
Two major storms are on track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast this week, bringing potentially dangerous flooding and surges to Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast that Tropical Storm Marco—currently in the Gulf of Mexico and downgraded from a hurricane Sunday night—will make landfall Monday in Louisiana. Tropical Storm… Continue reading Storms Projected to Hit Gulf Coast in ‘One-Two Punch’
Hurricane Season Is Off to a Record Fast Start
With a record fast start to the Atlantic hurricane season, federal forecasters are now predicting that 2020 could have as many as 25 named tropical storms and hurricanes—a number that would put it just shy of the 28 named storms seen during the historically high 2005 season. There have already been a record nine named… Continue reading Hurricane Season Is Off to a Record Fast Start
NOAA: New Data Shows an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in U.S. Coastal Flooding
Parts of the United States saw record levels of high-tide flooding last year as rising seas brought water further into coastal homes and infrastructure, government scientists reported Tuesday. The increase in high-tide flooding along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts since 2000 has been “extraordinary,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported, with the frequency of… Continue reading NOAA: New Data Shows an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in U.S. Coastal Flooding