weather hazards
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Not Cool, The World’s Getting So Hot, Scientists Needed a New Colour
On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better communicate the severity of hot weather. The color-coded system added magenta, a fifth-tier of heat severity, beyond red, to communicate extreme heat “rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little…
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Australian Officials Declare the Arrival of El Niño During Blistering Heat Wave
Authorities declared the arrival of El Niño, amid dangerous heat waves that are raising the country’s risk of widespread bushfires. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) announced the arrival of El Niño in an outlook after seeing a combination of conditions that include higher-than-average ocean temperatures. “Climate model outlooks suggest this El Niño is likely to continue…
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A Heat Wave Derailed a Train Outside San Francisco
Our existing infrastructure isn’t built to withstand climate change, and heat waves have started to drive wedges into the cracks in the system. Triple-digit temperatures caused a train to derail near San Francisco last week, according to an internal evaluation by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
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Another La Niña Fall Means U.S. Drought Will Get Even Worse
It’s looking like we’re heading into a third year of La Niña.