It’s really a little thing. A little worse. A little more frequent. A little longer lasting. A little more severe. A little more damaging. That’s the face of early onset climate change. It’s the face of severe weather events of increasing frequency, intensity and duration. It’s weather made a little
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The Disaffected Lib: In Today’s Flash Flooding News
Our cousins in Winnipeg are dealing with the celestial overflow that triggered flash flooding. The Weather Network attributed it to the, by now standard, slow-moving rainstorm that hit the city and lingered long enough to deliver more than 75 mm. or 3″ of rain in about 90-minutes. View “undefined” on
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Severe Weather Events Linked to Some Guy Named Rossby
We owe a lot to Carl-Gustav Rossby, the Swedish-born American scientist who pioneered research into atmospheric thermodynamics at MIT and was instrumental in the university establishing America’s first department of meteorology. Today, Rossby’s name is most commonly associated with this: This image depicts what are sometimes called “Rossby Waves”, the
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