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7 Dead After “Monster Nor’easter” Pummels East Coast, Leaving Floods, Outages
7 Dead After “Monster Nor’easter” Pummels East Coast, Leaving Floods, Outages At least seven people were dead after a “monster nor’easter” – officially called Winter Storm Riley – slammed the northeastern United States on Saturday, leaving a trail of flooded streets, power outages and brutal winds. NASA ✔@NASA Spotted by @NOAASatellites‘ #GOES16 satellite: today’s #noreaster […]
Beast From The East: Europe’s Feeling The Chill
Beast From The East: Europe’s Feeling The Chill The “Beast from the East” has well and truly arrived in Europe, blanketing much of the continent in snow. The Siberian weather system has sent temperatures plummeting to as low as -30°C in some places and, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy reports, at least ten people have died due to […]
Climate change: The feel-good catastrophe
Climate change: The feel-good catastrophe Last week my newly adopted home of Washington, D.C. had two back-to-back days of summer in the middle of winter. The first day the temperature reached 78 degrees (when the high is normally 48 degrees). That was a new record. The next day the high was 82 degrees (normally 49 […]
Three killed as severe storm lashes Netherlands
Three killed as severe storm lashes Netherlands The Dutch meteorological institute KNMI issued a Code Red for the storm, bringing wind speeds up to 140 kp/h [EPA] At least three people were killed and several others injured in the Netherlands due to a severe storm, as gusts of up to 140 kilometres per hour blew […]
Summer heat — electricity prices hit cap of $14 per KWhr in SA, almost there in Victoria
Summer heat — electricity prices hit cap of $14 per KWhr in SA, almost there in Victoria Watching the AEMO dashboard as a hot summer day hits Is this the summer crunch-time that the the National Grid managers have been fearing? Today things are not running smoothly in the green states of Victoria and SA […]
Get used to saying ‘bomb cyclone.’ This is our climate now.
REUTERS / Brian Snyder Get used to saying ‘bomb cyclone.’ This is our climate now. Now that one of the strongest nor’easters on record has swirled off to Canada, it’s time to talk about what everyone was thinking during the storm: Is this just what happens now? Short answer: yes. Get used to it. Wild […]
NY Declares State Of Emergency: JFK, La Guardia Close Due To Huge Winter Storm
NY Declares State Of Emergency: JFK, La Guardia Close Due To Huge Winter Storm Flights at JFK airport have been temporarily suspended “due to strong winds and whiteout conditions” caused by Winter Storm Grayson. Kennedy Airport ✔@JFKairport Due to strong winds and whiteout conditions, flights at JFK have been temporarily suspended. Travelers are urged to […]
The Entire East Coast Needs to Get Ready for “Snow Bombogenesis”
The Entire East Coast Needs to Get Ready for “Snow Bombogenesis” We’re starting the New Year off with a bang in the form of Winter Storm Grayson. The next weather threat heading our way is a phenomenon called a “bombogenesis.” This occurs when a system’s central pressure plummets dramatically — “24 millibars or more — in […]
Prepare for Extreme Winter Weather: Forecasters Warn of Bomb Cyclone
Prepare for Extreme Winter Weather: Forecasters Warn of Bomb Cyclone If you aren’t dealing with extreme winter weather, consider yourself lucky. 90% of the 48 continental U.S. states started off 2018 below freezing (32 degrees or lower). For weeks, severe winter weather has pounded many parts of U.S. and Canada with no end in sight. Currently, […]
Even The Penguins Are Panicking: North America Is Entering A Record-Setting Deep Freeze
Even The Penguins Are Panicking: North America Is Entering A Record-Setting Deep Freeze North America is in the grip of a record-setting cold spell that’s set to culminate with the arrival of a “bomb cyclone” along the eastern seaboard late Thursday. The cold front has delivered temperatures that haven’t been seen in decades. Already, stories […]
A “Bomb Cyclone” Is Set To Detonate Off The East Coast
A “Bomb Cyclone” Is Set To Detonate Off The East Coast “This storm developing off the Southeast coast will meet the meteorological criteria of a “bomb” as it rapidly intensifies. The signal for a storm has been evident since last week, but as the track has been fine-tuned, impacts to the I-95 corridor are now […]
Last record-breaking winter with snow hits Canada, US, before “nobody knows what snow is”
Last record-breaking winter with snow hits Canada, US, before “nobody knows what snow is” UPDATE: Record breaking snow falling in upstate New York. Pennsylvania. The airport in Erie, Pennsylvania, has had a whopping 65.1 inches of snow from this lake effect event — the highest snowfall total from any event on record in Erie. (Heavy […]
Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches Of Snow On Erie, PA; “Declaration Of Disaster”
Snowmageddon Dumps Record 60 Inches Of Snow On Erie, PA; “Declaration Of Disaster” On Tuesday, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania signed a declaration of disaster emergency, after a two-day storm dumped 5-feet of snow. Heavy lake-effect snow set record-setting snowfall totals in the snow belts to the east of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. From […]
America Not Immune from Chaos
America Not Immune from Chaos “Exceptional” America views itself as largely immune from devastating storms and the violence that infect much of the world, but recent weeks show that there is no protection against natural and human catastrophes, writes Ann Wright. Over the past two months – between natural disasters and the actions of a […]
