• Weather

April Ties Record, 2020 Could Be Warmest Year and CO2 Levels Highest in 3 Million Years

• #COVID19
• conservation
• El Nino
• heat
• hurricane
• science
• severe weather

April’s global average temperatures tied for the warmest on record, with NOAA predicting there is a 75% chance that this year will be the warmest since temperatures records began in 1880 due to much warmer than average temperatures in northern Asia, especially Siberia, across northern and coastal central Greenland, for parts of Antarctica, areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. 

Why This Matters:  As carbon dioxide levels keep going up it is easier and easier to set warmest month records because it stays in the atmosphere for a long time continuing to heat us up.

• Ocean

One Weird Thing: Thousands of “Penis Fish” Stranded on CA Beach

• bombogenis
• El Nino
• inkeeper worm

  They are actually called Innkeeper Worms and live several layers down in “U-shaped” burrows under the sand in the inter-tidal area of the coast.  A strong “bombogenesis” storm brought strong winds and heavy surf the weekend after Thanksgiving which washed out several feet of sand along the coast, exposing them, so to speak.  There […]

• Weather

Climate Change Driving Stronger El Niño Years

• climate change
• El Nino
• extreme weather

A new study predicts that in the future, continued warming over the western Pacific as a result of climate change promises conditions that will trigger more extreme El Niño events.

Why This Matters: Wetter El Niño years and dryer and hotter La Niña years can have deadly impacts for communities across the world.

• Weather

Hurricane Forecast Update: More Hurricanes Likely

• Climate Prediction Center
• El Nino
• hurricane
• National Hurricane Center
• NOAA
• severe storms
• storm surge

The Associated Press reported that as the “peak” of hurricane season begins they are now expecting 10 to 17 named storms, with five to nine hurricanes and two to four major ones, up from their May forecast of one or two fewer named storms and hurricanes.