“Our long-range predictions rely on an assumption that the future will be similar to the past,” wrote Fry. “Lose that, and we lose the tools that have allowed us to prepare for such eventualities.” As the Earth continues to get hotter, climate change is likely to bring more hard-...
Farmers’ Almanacwinter weather forecast calls for a season ofrapid-fire storms that will bring both rain and snow, with little downtime in between. Brace yourself for a Wet Winter Whirlwind! Here is everything you need to know about the extended weather forecast, including an important winter ...
On Monday the Salt Lake City 2034 bid committeepublished its 78 page bid bookthat had already been shared with the IOC in February. A section on community engagement noted “Utah is enthusiastically behind hosting the Olympic and Paralympic W...
Modern ability to forecast the weather came about during the Cold War. Rockets and satellites sent back pictures of the planet from space. These images revealed that the Earth had “bands and whirls and vortices that stretched thousands of miles,”wrote Hannah Fry in a 2019 New Yorkerarticle....
Across much of the rest of the West, such predictions are driven largely by known associations between tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures and wintertime precipitation [10], especially the various phases of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). But while the impacts of certain types of...