…very warm ocean temperatures in the vicinity of coastal North Carolina always provide the possibility for the storm to increase slightly in strength before landfall in the vicinity of the Outer Banks.
Signal: Warming oceans
Warming limiting growth of fish in Tasman sea
Rapidly warming ocean temperatures in some parts of the world could be pushing some fish species to the limit, stunting their growth, increasing stress and raising the risk of death, a study shows. An Australian study, published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, focused on the long-lived fish species called the banded morwong [...]
Record high ocean temps in January outnumber record lows 8:1
Map of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (relative to 1961-1990) expressed as percentiles of a modified 2-parameter gamma distribution. The black crosses and dashes indicate that a pixel is, respectively, the warmest or coldest example of that calendar month in the record. Coloured areas are significantly warm (orange and red) or cool (blue and magenta).
Global warming fueling La Niña’s floods and cyclones
Tropical Cyclone Yasi has been, according to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, the “most severe, most catastrophic storm that has ever hit our coast”. I asked Dr Andrew Ash, who is director of the CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship, if perhaps it didn’t just used to be really wet and windy before the drought and maybe we’d [...]
