U.S. billion-dollar weather disasters set an all-time record in 2023
NOAA’s 2023 billion-dollar weather disaster list included sever storms, cyclones, floods, a winter weather event, a drought and a wildfire.
Source: ctmirror.org
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Meteorologist Names 2023 U.S. Heat Waves After Oil, Gas Companies: Amoco, BP, Chevron
Guy Walton, a 30-year veteran of the Weather Channel, has come up with a naming and categorization convention for heat waves in the U.S.
Atlantic Ocean National Weather Service World Meteorological Organization Guy Walton Weather Channel Heat Wave Amoco
Source: forbes.com
First Thing: July likely to be hottest month on record, says Nasa
Gavin Schmidt of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies warns of likelihood of new high as heatwave bakes large parts of planet. Plus, the beginning of the end for the great Megan Rapinoe
Source: theguardian.com
Ex-meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas firms to shame them
‘People need to be riled up,’ says Guy Walton, who has already christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP
United States Harry Potter Margaret Klein Salamon Chris Gloninger World Meteorological Organization Climate Emergency Fund
Source: theguardian.com
Name heatwaves after oil companies to shame them, ex-meteorologist says
While Europe has been naming its heatwaves after Greek mythological figures, Guy Walton is naming the dangerous phenomena after gas and oil companies as “a shaming thing” to draw a direct link between the two
Source: yahoo.com
Warmest U.S. December in History Caps a Stormy, Mostly-Sizzling Year
The year 2021 produced 20 billion-dollar disasters, the second highest number going back to 1980, according to the NOAA.
Source: nakedcapitalism.com
Hurricanes, wildfires, and heat dominated U.S. weather in 2020
Hurricanes, wildfires, and heat dominated U.S. weather in 2020 One of the hottest years in U.S. history, 2020 was besieged by a record number of billion-dollar disasters, led by two of the most dangerous phenomena with links to climate change: wildfires and hurricanes. In its initial U.S. climate summary for 2020, NOAA catalogued a year that fell firmly in line with expectations for a human-warmed climate. The average temperature last year for the contiguous U.S., 54.37 degrees Fahrenheit, wa...
Source: skepticalscience.com