Ida departed US soils in a manner similar to how it arrived: a ferocious mass of atmospheric moisture and energy, unleashing violent condensation byproducts upon populous cities. Because hurricanes, atmospheric […]
I spend a lot of time thinking about weather records. Some events seem so perfectly suited for setting records that they appear, with retrospect, unapproachable. For example, take the derecho […]
Heat is pervasive, searing, angry. It swells and crashes over us like waves, smothering and suffocating and crushing. If cold is a knife, heat is a hammer. This week, from […]
It’s amazing what two months of a persistent atmospheric pattern can do in an environment as fragile as the West’s. In 2017, two months of repetitive, fanning atmospheric river events […]
Some weather disasters strike with a suddenness rivaled only by their ferocity. They are tornadoes, flash floods, derechos, blizzards and hurricanes; they lash out all at once, pummeling mankind from […]
