Get ready for a very active hurricane season in 2024

This year's hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30, is going to be even worse than last year's, forecasters warn.

Niranjana Rajalakshmi-U. Arizona • futurity
May 7, 2024 ~6 min

Houston’s flood problems offer lessons for cities trying to adapt to a changing climate

Too much pavement and old drainage systems are just two of the problems communities face.

Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan • conversation
May 5, 2024 ~9 min


What cities everywhere can learn from the Houston area’s severe flooding as they try to adapt to climate change

Too much pavement and old drainage systems are just two of the problems communities face.

Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan • conversation
May 5, 2024 ~9 min

Houston area’s flood problems offer lessons for cities trying to adapt to a changing climate

Too much pavement and old drainage systems are just two of the problems communities face.

Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan • conversation
May 5, 2024 ~9 min

Power outages linked to heat and storms are rising, and low-income communities are most at risk – NYC maps show the impact

Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.

Joan A. Casey, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington • conversation
May 1, 2024 ~10 min

Power outages linked to heat and storms are rising, and low-income communities are most at risk, as a new NYC study shows

Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.

Joan A. Casey, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington • conversation
May 1, 2024 ~10 min

An AI dataset carves new paths to tornado detection

TorNet, a public artificial intelligence dataset, could help models reveal when and why tornadoes form, improving forecasters' ability to issue warnings.

Kylie Foy | MIT Lincoln Laboratory • mit
April 29, 2024 ~11 min

Midwest tornadoes: What a decaying El Niño has to do with violent storms in the central US

A powerful storm system produced dozens of destructive tornadoes over three days that tore apart homes in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. A meteorologist explains the conditions that fueled them.

Jana Lesak Houser, Associate Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, The Ohio State University • conversation
April 29, 2024 ~6 min


Why does it feel so cold in the UK right now – and when will it warm up?

The current cold springtime weather explained by a meteorologist.

Helen Hooker, Research Scientist in Hydrometeorology, University of Reading • conversation
April 26, 2024 ~5 min

Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding – the storm was far too big to be human-made

Some parts of the Gulf experienced 18 months of rain in a single day.

Richard Washington, Professor of Climate Science, University of Oxford • conversation
April 19, 2024 ~6 min

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