As tools for measuring the links between #weather patterns & economic output evolve — & the interactions between weather & the #economy magnify the costs in unpredictable ways — the damage estimates have only risen.
It’s the kind of data that one might expect to set off alarm bells across the #financial industry, which closely tracks economic developments that might affect portfolios of #stocks & #loans. But it was hard to detect even a ripple.
The weather is getting more & more extreme every year. My blog has an ongoing series of #WatercolorScience articles about how different types of weather affect your painting- even if you work inside.
If a groundhog sees its shadow on steamy 90 degree day in June, does that mean we get six more weeks of steamy 90 degree days? Sigh. #Groundhogs#Weather
While heat waves hit parts of NA, this is the forecast here! We had some decent rain this wknd, which made me happy since I did get a few veg things planted. Around -1C last night, have been needing fire inside a few times a week(although many pleasant days). Original forecast -2 tonight, we'll see! Meantime, sun has come out a bit, reached 11C at noon. 'Hot' this weekend as #SummerSolstice approaches #ShareYourWeather#Alberta#ABwx #summer#weather
What’s the weather like today? Let’s see! Award-winning author-illustrator Steve Light, a preschool teacher himself, draws on a morning routine beloved by many young children.
If you're a weather nerd, or have family in places being impacted by severe weather driven by climate change, or just curious about what's happening, this channel on YouTube is right up your alley.
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Caught one! Apparently, lightnings also produce a roughly 22° halo if there's rain falling between it and the cam's vantage point. Re-centered and cropped to omit a silhouette of a nearby tree and narrowed levels over the whole gamut to make the halo a bit more visible, otherwise left untouched. Oversaturation is just a side effect of mentioned levels adjustment.
Hello everyone! I’m a meteorologist in the energy industry living in Surrey, B.C. At work, I forecast for the #energy industry in Eastern North America. On Mastodon, I toot about #weather, mostly #BCstorm, #WAwx, and #ORwx.
I recently moved in from Portland, Oregon and am excited to be here. Some #geology tidbits will be thrown in along with my thoughts on urban life, family life, and my #LDS faith.
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Be prepared for your first #Junuary! This is a wonderful lower-mainland climate element - about 20% of the years have a cool, wet period of several weeks in late May to late June.
As you morph into a #WeatherWimp, this will be worthy of hours of whinges, but this first one you will be amused how cranky everyone seems.
Temperatures are forecast to approach 50°C in a large part of #Pakistan and #India this week. This is the ambient temperature, not “heat index” (which is a garbage measurement).
It will actually be a pretty dry heat for most, not that that helps when temperatures are this extreme - it especially doesn’t help those without AC or access to clean water.
Valuable lesson just learned earlier this morning. Phones won't always warn you of tornadoes, but the city sirens sure did.
We just got back from sitting in the basement while a nasty storm line w/rotation passed close to us. I barely heard the siren over the wind/rain, but I did hear it.
Things developed really fast!
Hope everyone's OK to the east of us, that line had some punch!
I've lost track of how many severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings I've experienced tonight. I guess I'm in the middle of another severe thunderstorm warning right now...
Incredible northern lights displays were seen throughout the mid-latitudes Friday night into early Saturday. NOAA reported a Kp-Index of 9 for several hours and auroras were reported all the way down to Florida. At 10:00 Pacific Time Saturday, the Kp-Index was 8.
My view outside Kennewick, Washington was incredible. We started in Irrigon, Oregon but moved toward the Horse Heaven Hills to get out of light pollution. The show really ramped up around 23:00 when we were able to see pillars, ripples, and colors with the naked eye. Dim reds, greens, and purples could be seen without aid but popped out vividly in pictures.
This solar storm was produced by multiple solar flares issued from a very active sunspot region on the Sun. This sunspot region spans a distance 17 times the diameter of the Earth. The flares erupted material from the sun, which interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field to produce the northern (and southern) lights.
If you are in the northern third of the United States or Canada and missed the aurora on Friday night, you have another shot at seeing them on Saturday night. The forecast from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center shows Kp values reaching 7 between 09:00 and 12:00 UTC tonight. This is around 02:00 to 05:00 PDT early Sunday.
This isn’t a strong as Friday night, but assuming the forecast is accurate the northern lights tonight will still provide good photography opportunities. Friday night was the first time since 2003 that Kp-9 values had been observed.
A few scattered clouds may be seen on the Palouse and in the Idaho Panhandle with low-level stratus along the Oregon Coast. Overall, the weather appears favorable for northern lights viewing except on the Oregon Coast.
Because Kp-values are forecast to be lower tonight, the further north you are the better. Washington and the Idaho Panhandle have better chances of seeing it than Oregon, but in the Pacific Northwest the best place to be will be British Columbia.
To maximize your chances of seeing the aurora, go to a dark location outside of town with a clear view to the north. The lights were bright enough to be faintly seen by the naked eye in several towns last night (including where I am in Hermiston), but don’t expect that tonight.
Keep an eye on observations and forecasts from the Space Weather Prediction Center to get an idea of what you might see. Observations can be found on their homepage. Note that a G1 storm corresponds to Kp-5, G2 is Kp-6, and so on up to G5 being Kp-9. G5/Kp-9 are the highest values on their respective scales.
The forecast is updated twice daily (at 12:30 and 00:30 UTC). That can be found at this link. To convert from UTC to Pacific Time, just subtract seven hours.
The featured image is of our family aurora watch party outside Kennewick, Washington. (Alisha Ingalls)