by faster | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Scientific American DATE: December 10, 2019 SNIP: Extreme events all over the world were marked by the influence of climate change in 2018: wildfires in California, heat waves in Europe and Asia, and record-low sea ice in the Arctic. That’s according to an...
by faster | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Weather Underground DATE: June 24, 2019 SNIP: It’s well-known that high wind shear—a large change in the wind speed and/or direction with height in the atmosphere—is hostile for hurricane development, since a strong vertical change in winds creates a shearing...
by faster | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Grist DATE: March 19, 2019 SNIP: A humanitarian catastrophe is underway in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe as the full scale of devastation from Cyclone Idai becomes more clear. The World Meteorological Organization said Idai, which made landfall five days...
by faster | Nov 26, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Phys.org DATE: November 26, 2018 SNIP: Powerful storms that cause extreme weather conditions such as flooding across Europe and North America, with the potential to wreak social and economic havoc, could increase threefold by the end of the 21st century due to...
by faster | Sep 11, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: September 11, 2018 SNIP: Global hunger has reverted to levels last seen a decade ago, wiping out progress on improving people’s access to food and leaving one in nine people undernourished last year, with extreme weather a leading cause, the...