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Just no tornadoes, please. Bring on the snow.

This is frightening.

This is nuts

Good news on #Erin in the latest runs. ALL Euro ensembles miss the US.
This is very good agreement and an improvement from yesterday. The break in the ridge/ escape route is large and Erin seems like it will take the bait.
Stay tuned…

Historic heatwave unfolding in France.

Bordeaux just observed its hottest day on record with a provisional 41.6°C (107°F) — data since 1920. Red level extreme heat warnings are in force for the south of the country.

Sadly, this heatwave is far from over...

It is extremely concerning.

Great article. We have defin noticed this in southern IL and western KY.

The Midwest is getting warmer, even though summer highs are dropping. Here's why Summer afternoon temperatures have cooled off in the middle of the country in recent decades. But hotter nights and winters are still driving more overall warmth in the region.

"Summer afternoon temperatures have cooled off in the middle of the country in recent decades. But hotter nights and winters are still driving more overall warmth in the region." www.kcur.org/news/2025-08...

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

(Published April 2024)

Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires A new and alarming pattern of destruction is emerging in the rainforest, challenging Brazilian authorities ahead of COP30.

Amazon rain forest being eradicated
15.6 million hectares [38.5 million acres] of the Amazon were burned, by fires in 2024
This year its much worse
Amazon fires surged 92% in May and is up 27% in 2025, half of it in recently burned land — an all-time high

news.mongabay.com/2025/07/amaz...

Watch Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time TV Show - Streaming Online | Nat Geo TV Watch full episodes of Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time online. Get sneak peeks and free episodes all on Nat Geo TV.

#Hurricane #Katrina This is the most accurate portrayal of Hurricane Katrina that I have watched.

It brings home the different perspectives of what was happening on the ground vs what the media was telling people.

Well worth watching.

www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/show/835e...

How much of climate change is urbanization and how much is Greenhouse Effect?
In the heart of cities urban heat island is often a big player, boosting temps by several degrees. But since urban/cities make up only 3% of Earth’s surface, the impact on the global temperature record is insignificant.

Bar plot of the number of days each winter 1953-54 to 2024-25 at Anchorage International Airport with low temperatures of 0F (-17.8C) or lower along with an estimate of the time-varying average.

Anchorage (Airport) days per winter with a low temperature of 0F (-17.8C) or lower since 1953-54. A 73 percent decrease over the past seven decades in the average number of cold days per winter. It's almost as if something has changed. #akwx #Climate @climatologist49.bsky.social

100 years of average January-June temperature anomalies over land areas through this year... climate change and climate variability

Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...) 🧪

Up up and away

Finally an animation - today's visualization addition shows changes in yearly temperature anomalies from 1940 to 2024...

Graphic can be downloaded from zacklabe.com/united-state... using ERA5 data.

#Weather #Heat #ILwx #KYwx #TNwx #MOwx July 25, 2025. The peak of the heat wave is expected to arrive on Monday and Tuesday. Perhaps the hottest two days of 2025.

Climate Change Helped Fuel Heavy Rains That Led to Devastating Texas Flood - Inside Climate News Officials are reporting more than 100 fatalities, including children and camp counselors.

#Flood #ClimateChange Climate Change Helped Fuel Heavy Rains That Led to Devastating Texas Flood wtalk.co/Y

The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up Experts say climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe, but that our attitudes and actions haven't kept up

Climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and intense, but our ability to prepare for and react to it is not keeping pace.

Anything but the solution. That is where we are.

#NOAA #NWS #Flood #NWSWPC #FlashFlood Now is a good time to remind everyone that high-impact/high-casualty weather events impact meteorologists in different ways. Many feel personally responsible when lives are lost. Support one another. Show compassion.

Posting warnings on social media is likely the least effective way to disseminate warnings to the public. NOAA weather radios are better. Phone alerts. www.tornadocall.com phone calls when you're in a warning.

Posting warnings on social media is likely the least effective way to disseminate warnings to the public. NOAA weather radios are better. Phone alerts. www.tornadocall.com phone calls when you're in a warning.

Excellent analysis by @drshepherd2013.bsky.social, which reminds us that the Texas flooding disaster is multi-causal. Those who identify a single perceived failure point as sufficient need to read this piece. 👇

Concerning the Texas floods....Misuse on both ideological sides. I usually don't take the cop out narrative that both sides do it because that is a tactic in itself. It applies here though...

NWS did a great job. They are lying and throwing them under the bus.

June 2025 was the 3rd warmest June on record (2023, 2024).

NOAA Proposes Permanently Closing Premiere Hurricane Research Institute In its proposed 2026 budget released Monday, NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs, including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models

It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter. I encourage everyone with interests along the coast to read it carefully. ⬇️

Opinion | How Far Can We Degrade Our Hurricane Forecasting Before People End Up Dead?

It's been death by a million papercuts to U.S. weather forecasts by the Trump administration, but yesterday's detailed 2026 budget feels like a deathblow. In today's @nytimes.com I ask: How far can we degrade our hurricane forecasting before people end up dead?