Minimum Temperature, January 20, Washington, DC, Reagan National Airport For more on the January 2025 cold air outbreak see 2024 Cold Snap in the Eastern U.S. January 20, 2025 is Inauguration Day in Washington DC. The weather forecast was forecast to [...]
There is an enormous amount of observational and forecast data available. I always find it hard to find. Web interfaces are always changing. Some services let you customize plots. Others do not. Sometimes I find data, but can't figure out how to [...]
Alexander Mountain Fire, July 2024, Loveland Colorado. Imagine from Sentinel-2 Satellite. Posted by Tom Yulsman to Facebook. What is this document? This is a set of resources on wildfire and its relation to a warming climate. It includes writings of mine and [...]
Image: Temperature outlook for the United States issued on January 1, 2025 by the Climate Prediction Center. I have an updated post Inauguration Day 2025: How Cold Is it? https://openclimate.org/inauguration-day-2025-how-cold-is-it/ The article That Arctic blast can feel brutally cold, but [...]
If the Earth is warming, why does it still get so cold? When winter comes in the northern hemisphere, the Sun goes down over the Arctic and the North Pole. That region cools. It might take a little longer to cool than [...]
Winter is Getting Warmer: Warming Winter Syndrome One of the most robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that winter is warming more quickly than other seasons. The cascade of changes it brings, including ice storms and rain in regions that were [...]
Western North Carolina 2024 flood (Asheville) Turning to 2024 in Western NC and the remnants of Hurricane Helene, the area of the rain and floods is 1000s of square miles in several states. It is hilly and mountainous. All types of built [...]
An Inland Hurricane Scenario One flooding scenario in the U.S., especially, the eastern U.S., is when a hurricane or tropical storm moves overland and brings tropical moisture and rain to the interior of the country. A famous event is Hurricane Agnes in [...]
Average Recurrence Intervals (ARI) and Floods The average recurrence interval (ARI) is how often does a storm of a given magnitude return. A 1-in-100 year storm is expected once ever 100 years. This is often interpreted as a 1% chance in any [...]
Image: Long's Peak and the Colorado Front Range, Boulder County, Colorado This is a set of resources that I (Richard B. (Ricky) Rood) have collected for my classes and the Applied Climate program at University of Michigan. Recorded Lectures: Link to [...]