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 [...]
Template for thinking about river floods and flooding trends. A flood is not just a lot of rain. What is this document? This document is in continous development. It should always stand on its on, and it will be updated. The [...]
This is a set of plots to analyze the great floods in Michigan (and Wisconsin and Minnesota) in April of 2026. The analysis is in context of a warming climate. Since much of the news of 2026 was just how cold the [...]
Stories and Scenarios for a Warming Climate 20260222: This is an evolving, working document.. One of the best ways to think about our climate future is to think of stories that describe situations we are likely to face. Stories are natural to [...]
When Anomaly Correlations Are on Social Media. Update 20250626: This is an update on June 26, 2025. The previous posts are below. Please note all of this information is from public websites. I do my best to construct a robust story. At [...]
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 [...]
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? http://openclimate.org/inauguration-day-2025-how-cold-is-it/ The article That Arctic blast can feel brutally cold, but [...]
Should we panic over this sea surface temperature plot? Richard B. (Ricky) Rood University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Emeritus) June 20, 2023 Recently, a sea surface temperature (SST) plot similar to the one here (Figure 1 and above) has been [...]
The lead image above may look like a pretty sunset, but it actually is a view of the Marshall Fire in Boulder County, Colo., in December 2021. Man vs. machine Artificial intelligence and machine learning are very fashionable right now. We tend [...]
The blame game A couple of years ago, I accepted an interview request from a conservative radio host. It was about the time that Drew Gronewold and I were talking about high water levels on the Great Lakes. We maintained a warming [...]
