#Pacific Northwest will be hottest region this weekend

#Pacific Northwest will be hottest region this weekend

“#Pacific Northwest will be hottest region this weekend” Move over Mexico! If you want to bake in North America’s hottest region this weekend, book a trip to Seattle or Vancouver. An “unprecedented” severe weather system is expected to send the mercury “skyrocketing” into the triple digits across the northwest, and possibly shatter records early next…

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#Tropical Storm Claudette crashes into Gulf Coast

#Tropical Storm Claudette crashes into Gulf Coast

“#Tropical Storm Claudette crashes into Gulf Coast” Tropical Storm Claudette is dumping huge amounts of rain on the Gulf Coast states as it moves north. The third named storm of the season brought heavy winds to the region, whipping up waves and raising water levels 13 feet above normal from Southeast Louisiana to Panama City,…

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#Hoover Dam reservoir hits record low in another sign of extreme drought

#Hoover Dam reservoir hits record low in another sign of extreme drought

“#Hoover Dam reservoir hits record low in another sign of extreme drought” June 10 – The reservoir created by Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel that symbolized the American ascendance of the 20th Century, has sunk to its lowest level ever, underscoring the gravity of the extreme drought across the U.S. West. Lake Mead, formed in the 1930s from the damming of the Colorado River at…

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#Hurricanes to threaten more than 32 million US homes

#Hurricanes to threaten more than 32 million US homes

“#Hurricanes to threaten more than 32 million US homes” Hurricanes are expected to threaten more than 32 million homes across the coastal United States this year.  A report released Wednesday from real estate analytics firm CoreLogic Inc. said the homes – both single-family homes and homes in multi-unit buildings – were at moderate to greater risk from the damaging…

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#21 runners dead after extreme weather in China

#21 runners dead after extreme weather in China

“#21 runners dead after extreme weather in China” Extreme weather in China has left 20 cross-country runners in the northwestern part of the country dead, according to reports. The athletes were in the high-altitude section of the race in the Yellow River Stone Forest near Baiyin city when “abrupt, extreme weather” struck about 1 p.m….

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#NOAA predicts another busy Atlantic hurricane season

#NOAA predicts another busy Atlantic hurricane season

“#NOAA predicts another busy Atlantic hurricane season” The U.S. is likely to be hit with another “above-normal” Atlantic hurricane season in 2021.  At a virtual briefing on Thursday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasters predicted a likelihood of 13 to 20 total named storms.  In addition, the agency said six to 10 of those named storms were likely to…

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#A degree hotter than two decades ago

#A degree hotter than two decades ago

“#A degree hotter than two decades ago” America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago. The new United States normal is not just hotter, but wetter in the eastern and central parts of the nation and considerably drier in the West than just a decade earlier. Meteorologists calculate climate…

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#As extreme weather increases, climate misinformation adapts

#As extreme weather increases, climate misinformation adapts

“#As extreme weather increases, climate misinformation adapts” PROVIDENCE, RI — Climate scientists have warned for years that a warming planet would cause more extreme storms, like the one that walloped Texas in February, knocking out power and leaving millions in a deep freeze. Yet as the snow fell and the wind howled, some looked for other explanations for the storm…

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