Jul 1, 2023 12:46 AM
El Niño is here — how bad will it be?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02122-6
INTRO: Hot on the heels of a three-year La Niña global weather pattern, the planet seems to be headed into what could be a strong El Niño event with worldwide consequences.
This El Niño might turn out to be a moderate one. But some scientists fear it could be powerful, and meteorologists and emergency-preparedness officials are bracing for potential floods and droughts, and the possibility that planetary temperatures could reach record highs. The World Health Organization has warned that the new El Niño could stoke the spread of mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika and chikungunya. Already an El Niño pattern of warm ocean waters has been implicated in Peru’s severe outbreak of the viral disease dengue... (MORE - details)
Expect a hot, smoky summer in much of America. Here’s why you’d better get used to it
https://apnews.com/article/smoky-air-pol...ea8277f1fa
INTRO: The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly, forecasters say.
And then the smoke will likely come back to the Midwest and East.
That’s because neither the 235 out-of-control Canadian wildfires nor the stuck weather pattern that’s responsible for this mess of meteorological maladies are showing signs of relenting for the next week or longer, according to meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Prediction Center... (MORE - details)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02122-6
INTRO: Hot on the heels of a three-year La Niña global weather pattern, the planet seems to be headed into what could be a strong El Niño event with worldwide consequences.
This El Niño might turn out to be a moderate one. But some scientists fear it could be powerful, and meteorologists and emergency-preparedness officials are bracing for potential floods and droughts, and the possibility that planetary temperatures could reach record highs. The World Health Organization has warned that the new El Niño could stoke the spread of mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika and chikungunya. Already an El Niño pattern of warm ocean waters has been implicated in Peru’s severe outbreak of the viral disease dengue... (MORE - details)
Expect a hot, smoky summer in much of America. Here’s why you’d better get used to it
https://apnews.com/article/smoky-air-pol...ea8277f1fa
INTRO: The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly, forecasters say.
And then the smoke will likely come back to the Midwest and East.
That’s because neither the 235 out-of-control Canadian wildfires nor the stuck weather pattern that’s responsible for this mess of meteorological maladies are showing signs of relenting for the next week or longer, according to meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Prediction Center... (MORE - details)