A report commissioned by the United States Navy concludes that climate change will pose profound challenges for the sea service in coming decades, including a need to secure Arctic shipping lanes, prepare for more frequent humanitarian missions and protect coastal installations from rising seas. The 15-month study, conducted by the National Research Council, accepts the [...]
Signal: stronger extratropical storms
Winter storms driven and moderated by climate change
…those cold temperatures and record snowfalls were not all that unusual and are actually consistent with there being a global warming trend. That new insight comes courtesy of two recent reports: the Arctic Report Card prepared by the Arctic Council (discussed here yesterday) and a paper published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters [...]
Chiclone megastorm lights up Great Lakes skies
Tornadoes, violent thunderstorms, and torrential rains swept through a large portion of the nation’s midsection yesterday, thanks to the strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest. NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center logged 24 tornado reports and 282 reports of damaging high winds from yesterday’s spectacular storm, and the storm continues to produce a wide variety of [...]
Growth of Chiclone megstorm described as “bombogenesis”
The featured chart presents an IEM computed analysis of the surface low minimum pressure from Monday afternoon thru Tuesday. The low pressure center developed in Kansas and then rapidly intensified as it moved to the north and east into Minnesota. The values shown set various records for all time lowest pressure and may go down [...]
Megastorm “Chiclone” sets record for most intense storm in USA
October Superstorm. Lowest Pressure On Record For The USA. Welcome to the Land of 10,000 Weather Extremes. Yesterday a rapidly intensifying storm, a “bomb”, spun up directly over the MN Arrowhead, around mid afternoon a central pressure of 953 millibars was observed near Orr. That’s 28.14″ of mercury. Bigfork, MN reported 955 mb, about 28.22″ [...]
Most intense storm ever hits Great Lakes
Tornadoes, violent thunderstorms, and torrential rains swept through a large portion of the nation’s midsection yesterday, thanks to the strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest. NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center logged 24 tornado reports and 282 reports of damaging high winds from yesterday’s spectacular storm, and the storm continues to produce a wide variety of [...]
