Study Says Back-to-Back Hurricanes Likely to Come More Often February 28, 2023 By Seth Borenstein What used to be a rare one-two punch of consecutive hurricanes hitting about the same place in the United States...
How One Computer Forecast Model Botched Hurricane Ian October 11, 2022 By Seth Borenstein As Hurricane Ian bore down on Florida, normally reliable computer forecast models couldn’t agree on where the killer storm would...
Study: Four Major Tipping Points Close to Triggering Hotter Temps September 20, 2022 By Seth Borenstein Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate “tipping...
Decade Old Climate Report Warned of Extreme Weather September 16, 2022 By Seth Borenstein Record high temperatures in urban Europe as heat waves bake the planet more often. Devastating floods, some in unprepared areas....
Greenland’s Melting ‘Zombie Ice’ Will Raise Global Sea Level by 10 Inches: Report August 31, 2022 By Seth Borenstein Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches (27 centimeters) — more...
Weather Whiplash: Summer Lurches From Drought to Flood August 25, 2022 By Seth Borenstein Parts of northern Texas, mired in a drought labeled as extreme and exceptional, are flooding under torrential rain. In a...
Hurricane Chief to Take Over as Weather Service Director June 9, 2022 By Seth Borenstein A meteorologist who oversaw warnings and forecasts during one of the busiest spurts of Atlantic hurricane activity on record will...
Weather’s Unwanted Guest: Nasty La Nina Keeps Showing Up June 2, 2022 By Seth Borenstein Something weird is up with La Nina, the natural but potent weather event linked to more drought and wildfires in...
Study Links Cleaner Air to More Atlantic Hurricanes May 13, 2022 By Seth Borenstein Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found. The National...
U.S. Confronted With Deadly Billion Dollar Disasters as Carbon Emissions Soar January 12, 2022 By Seth Borenstein The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021,...