It was two days before superstorm Sandy hit the north east and I was driving into town when a leaf landed on my antenna and hung there in the wind and rain. All the way up until the storm hit, it poured every day and those overcast skies seemed to say, "beware." I shot the image through my rainy window in the early afternoon. The sky was as dark as evening.
Check on the health of the trees around your house, and batten down the hatches.
"NOAA is forecasting a range of 17 to 25 total named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher). Of those, 8 to 13 are forecast to become #hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including 4 to 7 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher). Forecasters have a 70% confidence in these ranges."
WaPo: This hurricane season could be among the worst in decades, NOAA warns
The NOAA outlook calls for 17 to 25 tropical storms, 8 to 13 hurricanes and 4 to 7 “major” hurricanes and is the most aggressive May prediction the agency has made.
" Current summer temperature outlooks for the US are certainly bringing the #heat. Above-average temperatures are forecast over nearly every square mile of the Lower 48.
“We anticipate a well above-average probability for major #hurricanes making landfall along the continental #UnitedStates coastline and in the #Caribbean,” the group said in a news release."
Nova Scotia where we confidently boast that nothing is more than 50 km from the sea... decides that the coast does not need protected and people will just do the right thing. (for themsleves esp if rich) Why don't conservatives want to conserve the coast line? Premier says they all get to decide for themselves.
AccuWeather sounding alarm bells: Super-charged hurricane season possible in 2024
It can be a "blockbuster" hurricane season, AccuWeather hurricane experts warn, as all of the ingredients are coming together for explosive tropical development in the Atlantic this year.
By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist and staff writer
Published Feb 20, 2024
"#Hurricanes are becoming so strong due to the #climate crisis that the classification of them should be expanded to include a “category 6” storm, furthering the scale from the standard 1 to 5, according to a new study."
No place in the US is safe from the #ClimateCrisis, but a new report shows where it's most extreme
By Ella Nilsen, CNN
Published Nov 14, 2023
"The effects of a rapidly warming climate are being felt in every corner of the US and will worsen over the next 10 years with continued #FossilFuel use, according to a stark new report from federal agencies.
"The Fifth National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report due roughly every five years, warned that even though planet-warming pollution in the US is slowly decreasing, it is not happening nearly fast enough to meet the nation’s targets, nor is it in line with the UN-sanctioned goal to limit #GlobalWarming to 1.5 degrees Celsius – a threshold beyond which scientists warn life on #Earth will struggle to cope.
This year’s assessment reflects the reality that Americans can increasingly see and feel climate impacts in their own communities, said Katharine Hayhoe, a distinguished climate scientist at Texas Tech University and contributor to the report.
“Climate change is affecting every aspect of our lives,” Hayhoe told CNN.
"Some of the report’s sweeping conclusions remain painfully familiar: No part of the US is truly safe from climate disasters; slashing fossil fuel use is critical to limit the consequences, but we’re not doing it fast enough; and every fraction of a degree of warming leads to more intense impacts.
"But there are some important new additions: Scientists can now say with more confidence when the climate crisis has made #rainstorms, #hurricanes and #wildfires stronger or more frequent, long-term #drought more severe and #heat more deadly."