SE Texas getting warmer, wetter according to new climate data
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Southeast Texas is getting warmer and wetter based on climate trends over the past several decades.
HOUSTON – Based on climate data spanning the past several decades, southeast Texas is feeling the effects of climate change by trending warmer and wetter.
The National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI), a division of NOAA, released new climate “normals” for both temperature and rainfall for climate sites across the entire United States. The new climate normals are based on data collected over the most recent three-decade period, from 1991 to 2020. Every decade climate normals are updated based on the most recent three decades:
Dallas sees temperatures rise 80 degrees as snow vanishes in central U.S.
Matthew Cappucci, The Washington Post
Feb. 23, 2021
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Brandon Fisher carries drinking water he was given by volunteers at an apartment complex without water Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Dallas. Two local bartenders took it upon themselves to bring a truck of drinking water to distribute to residents that have not had running water for over a week. (AP Photo/LM Otero)LM Otero/Associated Press
The forecast in the central U.S. has been one of weather whiplash in the past week. Much of Texas was enjoying unseasonable summerlike warmth less than a week after enduring the coldest air mass to overspread the Lone Star State since 1989.
19 February 2021 (WMO) Large swathes of North America have been gripped by cold and heavy snowfall, causing loss of life, major traffic chaos and power outages for millions of people. The prolonged freeze, which saw many new record cold maximum and minimum temperatures, was caused by an Arctic blast of air moving down from Canada all the way into Texas.
More than 100 million people over 1.6 million km² were under winter storm warnings, according to the US National Weather Service. Some 73% of the Continental USA was covered in snow as of midnight February 16, the greatest extent on record in the database, which dates back to 2003.
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Updated: 18 Feb 2021, 8:17
THE Texas blackout was photographed from space and three million people are set to endure a fifth day without power - as fury continues to grow over the officials handling of the killer freeze that has ground the state to a halt.
Storm Uri and extreme winter weather left millions of people across the United States without electricity or heat this week.
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Satellite images shared by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Wednesday showed the chilling weather s impact on the state of Texas, with swathes of Houston seen plunged in darkness on Tuesday nightCredit: NASA
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Houston is captured via satellite on Saturday, February 6, looking much brighter before the crippling power outagesCredit: NASA