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 [...]
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 [...]
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 development. It should always stand on its on, but it will be updated. The material [...]
Image: Lenticular cloud, February 13, 2022, Boulder County, Colorado Self Efficacy: Gaining Agency on Climate Change I get the occasional letter from a stranger worried about climate change. Sometimes, they say they were referred to me. Most of these letters are whether [...]
Image: Sun obscured by forest fire smoke. August 2020, Boulder County, Colorado Scenario Planning Collection This is a selection of materials on Scenario Planning. GLISA: Scenario Planning (Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments) GLISA’s scenario planning approach describes plausible future events and [...]
Portfolio: Richard B. (Ricky) Rood This portfolio provides examples of publications of different types. Short Stories Relics, Faultline: The troubling thoughts that come when buzzards make a home on the roof of your house. The Keeper, Foreign Service Journal: The efforts of [...]
Starting in the mid-1990s I became involved in management and analysis of U.S. government efforts in climate and weather modeling. This became a unique aspect of my career, and here at the end of my career, I am still asked to be [...]