Climate change influences severe weather by causing longer droughts and higher temperatures in some regions and more intense deluges in others, say climate experts. Among the most vulnerable are communities in exposed mountain and coastal regions. In those settings worldwide, citizens are adjusting to...
gender, geography, and socioeconomic status—and so will remedies. A recent international study in theLancetsays that many more people will be exposed to extreme weather events over the next century than previously thought—“a potentially catastrophic risk to human ...
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This new use of polygons to define weather location is an important enhancement for the NWS and lends itself well to be used in Geographic Information Systems. A mechanism has been devised to capture this polygon information off of the text warnings issued by NWS and database the information....
Using Geographic Information System Tools to Explore Relationships between National Weather Service Overtime Expenditures and High Impact Weather EventsFor decades, the National Weather Service (NWS) has been issuing mission-critical weather watch, warning, advisory, and forecast information. Delivery of ...
Despite severe weather events across a number of our jurisdictions, our teams were thoroughly prepared and restored outages rapidly and well within regulatory requirements. This includes our New York region where the average time to restore 95% of customers was 12 hours, and in Massachusetts where ...
Deliver critical information to the public, the hazards community and other users Many of the NWS data sets are available in formats that are able to be imported directly into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or your own custom map viewers or webpages. Access the NWS GIS portalhere....
adult population, in terms of age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, and geographic location (see www.uasdata.usc.edu/page/Weights). Table 1 Demographic characteristics of our sample, as compared to U.S. population Full size table 2.2 Procedure Participants were randomly assigned to receive ...
in 250 million gallons of slurry surging into the mineshafts and out two mine exits flooding nearby creeks. Twenty miles downstream had to be declared aquatic dead zones and communities in ten counties had to shut down their water systems (see "When Mountains Move" - National Geographic). ...