How El Nino helped create severe winter weather in Northeast Florida and beyond
Teeth chattering cold is headed to North Florida and it is already responsible for major disruptions in some parts of the United States. Itโs creating chaos for travelers, football fans, and even voters in the Iowa Caucus. This brutal arctic blast is expected to impact 79% of the country, in states from Oregon to Mississippi to Florida.
Meteorologists say Earth sizzled to a global heat record in June and July has been getting hotter
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says an already warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree, with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month.
Flirting with climate danger: UN forecasts 2 in 3 chance of briefly hitting key heat limit soon
The United Nations' weather agency says there's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change sometime in the next five years.
NOAA ups tropical forecast, sees more storms this hurricane season
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The nation's lead hurricane forecasters say conditions have become more favorable for above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean and are predicting more tropical storms and hurricanes this season than they saw forming earlier this year. El Nino typically suppresses Atlantic hurricane activity but now that its gone, we could see a busier season ahead, said Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAAs Climate Prediction Center. They now believe there could be 10 to 17 tropical storms and five to nine hurricanes, two of those major -- Category 3 or above. So far this year there have been two named storms, one of which became a hurricane. The hurricane season officially ends on Nov. 30.