Thanks, Susie, for this coverage. So little is done here about weather elsewhere, but I’d heard on the BBC news about some bad storms, there was, iirc, some video about the highest wave recorded in Britain on an evening news broadcast, but no real follow up, and friends of my brother’s had been in Ireland for a funeral and said the weather was truly ghastly. Hitting SE Ireland and England fericiously — and that was weeks ago!
The BBC did cover a Rutgers’ scientist who’s been studying the effect of Arctic warming on the jet stream and found that as the temp differences are less between the US and southern Canada and the Arctic that the jet stream slows down, allowing weather to sit on places. Not too bad with a nice high pressure system and nice temps, but awful with bad storms and heavy precipitation or very high temps and high humidity….
We are not going to enjoy our “new” climates, I fear.
Yes indeed. Largest wave ever recorded, huge amount of damage along the coast. Homes and business flooded on a weekly basis. And very frankly linked to the same conditions creating the worst winter in decades in the northeastern US, and thinnest Arctic ice ever, all linked to global climate change. US media continues its blackout. I really hate those guys.
Thanks, Susie, for this coverage. So little is done here about weather elsewhere, but I’d heard on the BBC news about some bad storms, there was, iirc, some video about the highest wave recorded in Britain on an evening news broadcast, but no real follow up, and friends of my brother’s had been in Ireland for a funeral and said the weather was truly ghastly. Hitting SE Ireland and England fericiously — and that was weeks ago!
The BBC did cover a Rutgers’ scientist who’s been studying the effect of Arctic warming on the jet stream and found that as the temp differences are less between the US and southern Canada and the Arctic that the jet stream slows down, allowing weather to sit on places. Not too bad with a nice high pressure system and nice temps, but awful with bad storms and heavy precipitation or very high temps and high humidity….
We are not going to enjoy our “new” climates, I fear.
Yes indeed. Largest wave ever recorded, huge amount of damage along the coast. Homes and business flooded on a weekly basis. And very frankly linked to the same conditions creating the worst winter in decades in the northeastern US, and thinnest Arctic ice ever, all linked to global climate change. US media continues its blackout. I really hate those guys.