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Aug 28, 2021 · Intensifying Hurricane Ida a significant threat to key infrastructure. Ida is forecast to hit the industrial corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, site of three key ports, petrochemical sites, and a nuclear power plant. by Jeff Masters and Bob Henson August 28, 2021.
Aug 27, 2023 · Tropical Depression 10 was upgraded to Tropical Storm Idalia at 11:15 a.m. EDT Sunday after a NOAA reconnaissance flight found that surface winds had increased to 40 mph. Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for far western Cuba and the northeast Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Storm surge and wind watches will likely be issued later on Sunday ...
Jan 11, 2022 · Below is a list of the top-10 weather and climate change events of 2021, as rated by the impacts on humans and/or meteorological significance. 1. The most extreme heat wave in world history. Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin than in the historic late ...
Oct 27, 2022 · As much as $8.1 billion of the $62.5 billion in damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut resulted from the increase in sea levels caused by human-caused climate change, according to a 2021 paper by scientists from Climate Central.
Sep 6, 2022 · A 2019 report by the Global Commission on Adaptation indicates that without adaptation, climate change may depress global agriculture yields by 5 to 30% by 2050, at the same time that an expanding population and increased meat consumption causes a 50% increase in global food demand. This first part of a two-part series examines observations of ...
Aug 29, 2023 · At 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Idalia was located about 270 miles south-southwest of Tampa, Florida, with top sustained winds of 85 mph and a central pressure of 976 mb. Idalia had accelerated from its leisurely northward pace of 8 mph on Monday night, and was now moving north at 14 mph.
Sep 1, 2021 · From my Yale Climate Connections colleague Dr Jeff Masters: “I figured this week was a good time to tell a story about a hypothetical future year when extreme weather events similar to those that have happened in recent years occur in rapid sequence to cause a global food crisis.“
