July 29, 2019
Stories about Weather
July 25, 2019
Heat Wave Grips Europe – Again – High Temp Records Smashed
For a second time this summer, unprecedented hot weather is disrupting daily life as high-temperature records are being broken across the European continent. It was nearly 109 degrees Fahrenheit in Paris yesterday according to Accuweather, breaking the previous...July 21, 2019
Not Beating the Heat: Fires Across Arctic, Global Extremes in June
The U.S. heatwave over the weekend (and it was hot — New York and Boston both set high temp records on Saturday) overshadowed some disturbing new photos that emerged late last week of vast fires in Siberia due to dried out swaths of peatland (aka bogs or swamps)...July 18, 2019
Most of U.S. Feeing the Heat; Dangerously Hot Days Are Increasing
The National Weather Service (NWS) warned that a “widespread and dangerous heat wave is building in the central and eastern U.S. this weekend – with more than a hundred fifty million people under heat watches and warnings, as the actual air temperature is...July 15, 2019
Barry Weakens But Threat Still Looms
We wrote on Friday that Tropical Storm Barry had the potential to inflict unprecedented damage on New Orleans, and while the storm caused serious flooding and power outages to 700,000 people, the storm has weakened to a tropical depression as it continues to slowly...July 11, 2019
Barry May Hit NOLA, Poses An Unprecedented Threat
By Alexandra Patel and Monica Medina On Wednesday, New Orleans got a preview of coming disasters. Severe thunderstorms that dumped between 6 and 7 inches of rain on the city in just 3 hours prompted tornado warnings and inundated the downtown area with water, causing...July 9, 2019
Flash Floods Pound DC Just As Trump Denies Greatest Environmental Threat of All
Yesterday, nearly a month’s worth of rain fell in just one hour in the Washington D.C. metro area–making it one of the area’s top 10 wettest July days ever recorded. As the Washington Post reported, “The sheets of rain, with nowhere to run off,...July 7, 2019
Alaska Shatters High Temp Records
On Independence Day, Anchorage, Alaska hit its highest temperature in recorded history — 90 degrees — by five degrees and beat the previous high for the 4th of July by more than twenty degrees, as records were broken all around the state. However, other...July 1, 2019