Unprecedented Arctic Warming / Sea Ice Gone too Early

2018, Arctic, Arctic Circle, Arktis, Europe, Extreme WeatherLeave a comment

Europe is so cold now that the Arctic appears to be a warm escape https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/28/europe-is-so-cold-now-that-the-arctic-appears-to-be-a-warm-escape Rare hurricane winds bury Greenland station in drifts Hurricane-force winds battered NSF’s Summit Station, atop the Greenland ice sheet, over the weekend, with maximum sustained winds of 82 mph and gusts reaching 145mph https://twitter.com/NSF_OPP/status/968876728788619265

Dust Bowl Film Rain for the Earth (1937) 16:9

Documentary, Drought, Extreme Weather, Films, USALeave a comment

The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl Social and economic wastes resulting from continued drought in the midwestern dust bowl and efforts of the federal government in attempting to…

Earthwatch a historic disaster documentary

1970s, 2018, Documentary, Extreme Weather, History, National SecurityLeave a comment

Extreme weather events and other disasters, and what to do were discussed in the late 50s and 70s, including the consideration of climate change (1958), or more broadly pollution (1972). This short presents a compilation of historic disaster documentary style film footage. Climate Change 1958: The Bell Telephone Science Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AXBbuDxRY Your Chance to Live:…

Grayson ‘Cyclone Bomb’ footage Boston & New Jersey

2018, Cyclones, Extreme Weather, Ice Storm, Precipitation, Snowfall, Storms, USALeave a comment

Footage of Bomb Cyclone Grayson during January 4th ,2018 from New Jersey and Boston. Climate scientist Jim Hansen on winter superstorms https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/acp-16-3761-2016.pdf Video Zeke Orzech https://twitter.com/Zeke_O NWS Boston https://twitter.com/NWSBoston/status/948950967424356359 MBTA Transit Police‏ https://twitter.com/MBTATransitPD/status/949006234618925056 Brian J. Ward https://twitter.com/ClimateStateDE/status/949089045837213696 Virginia Pitcher https://twitter.com/kelkelly/status/949071051740377088 CBS WUSA9 Jeff Frame https://twitter.com/VORTEXJeff/status/948949110345928704 NASA SpoRT https://twitter.com/NASA_SPoRT NWS Caribou https://twitter.com/NWSCaribou/status/949075415469101056 Music Piotr Wojtowicz aka…

BombCyclone #Footage early January 4th 2018

2018, Extreme Weather, Precipitation, Snowfall, Storms, USALeave a comment

Footage of Bombcyclone Grayson during the early morning hours, from New Jersey. Climate scientist Jim Hansen on winter superstorms https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/acp-16-3761-2016.pdf Video Zeke Orzech https://twitter.com/Zeke_O CBS WUSA9 Eric Holthaus https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/948805308763254784 Music Piotr Wojtowicz aka ThePianoMan007 https://soundcloud.com/thepianoman007/here-and-now and https://www.youtube.com/user/fucer007

Winter Superstorms in U.S. and Europe (Jan 3 2018)

2018, Cyclones, Europe, Extreme Weather, Germany, Storms, UK, USALeave a comment

A powerful Nor’Easter is forming off the East Coast of the U.S., while temperatures in Florida outpace those in Anchorage, Alaska. Meanwhile powerful storms swept through western Europe, France, the U.K., Ireland, Netherlands, and Germany. One difference are the rather mild temperatures in Europe compared to U.S. Arctic cold. The storm Eleanor sweeps France with…

Winter Superstorms and Global Warming

2018, Cyclones, Extreme Weather, Storms, USALeave a comment

Cyclone’ to blast East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/01/02/monster-storm-to-blast-east-coast-before-polar-vortex-uncorks-tremendous-cold-late-this-week Animation of low-level wind speed showing the development of the massive circulation https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/948311209970978822 Hansen: Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/acp-16-3761-2016.pdf Midweek snow and arctic cold on the way https://www.njtvonline.org/news/uncategorized/wrath-winter-midweek-snow-arctic-cold-way All day Thursday meteorologists are going to be glued…

Thomas Fire approaches Santa Barbara

2017, Extreme Weather, USA, WildfireLeave a comment

The Thomas Fire ranks as the third-largest in California’s history with 267,500 acres burned, could become largest on record. Video footage by Mike Eliason https://twitter.com/EliasonMike NWS Los Angeles GOES 16 visible (red band) imagery shows smoke from the #ThomasFire flowing over the Channel islands https://twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/942183115321200641 Thomas Fire Likely to Become Largest in California History https://robertscribbler.com/2017/12/17/thomas-fire-likely-to-become-largest-in-california-history…

Arctic Sea Ice and Permafrost Status Report 2017

2017, Arctic Amplification, Climate Change, Climate Science, Climatology, Communication, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Extreme Weather, Holocene, Permafrost, Polar Amplification, Sea IceLeave a comment

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, affecting people in the region, fish and wildlife they depend on for food, and their environment. This unprecedented change has ramifications far beyond the region for the global economy, weather, climate, sea level, trade and security. Watch the full Arctic Report 2017 AGU press conference…

Worst Ever Wildfire California Extreme Footage Compilation

2017, Extreme Weather, USA, WildfireLeave a comment

Dry weather and merciless winds, with gusts predicted to reach the strength of a Category 1 hurricane in mountainous areas, threaten to intensify the already devastating Southern California wildfires. A value of 48 is considered high danger, while 162 is extreme. Thursday’s score: 296, a record. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/07/us/ventura-fire-california/index.html L.A. County Fire Department https://twitter.com/LACoFDPIO Terrence McKelvey &…

Rupert Murdoch’s LA home Burning down in Record Wildfire

2017, Denial, Extreme Weather, Impacts, WildfireLeave a comment

The home of 21st Century Fox and Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch, located on a vineyard outside of Los Angeles, is “burning down” in Southern California’s wildfires, according to an NBC News report on Wednesday. http://thehill.com/homenews/media/363573-report-rupert-murdochs-la-home-burning-down-in-wildfire California Increased Wildfire Risk http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/california-increased-wildfire-risk Smoke and Fire in Southern California https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=91379 Rupert Murdoch doesn’t understand climate change…

Rare December Thomas Fire, conditions remain Critical

2017, Extreme Weather, Impacts, USA, WildfireLeave a comment

From Santa Barbara to San Diego, California’s coastal cities and mountains are on high alert this week, as an unusually prolonged bout of Santa Ana winds blowing toward the coast will lead to a multi-day period of extremely dangerous fire weather. https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/extreme-weeklong-fire-threat-puts-southern-california-edge ThomasFire is currently 31,000 acres with 150 structures destroyed https://twitter.com/VCFD_PIO/status/938010468639154176 Neighborhood homes destroyed…