Storm Antoni: why naming storms is a risky business
Naming storms, streets or buildings is complicated because names are not just benign words. They are powerful cultural workhorses.
Aug. 5, 2023 • ~7 min
Naming storms, streets or buildings is complicated because names are not just benign words. They are powerful cultural workhorses.
Currents can carry that deep ocean heat hundreds of miles to surface again at distant shores.
Two disaster response experts mapped who gets FEMA buyouts and where they go.
Two disaster response experts mapped who gets FEMA buyouts and where they go. It turns out, they don’t go far.
The official forecast calls for a strong El Niño by winter, but other models suggest it might dip in and out. An atmospheric scientist explains.
A ‘greenhushing’ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in how they write policies and invest.
Current forecasts suggest a warm tropical Pacific will be interfering what could otherwise be a ferocious Atlantic hurricane season.
El Niño years put Hawaii and the Mexican Riviera on alert for destructive tropical storms and hurricanes.
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