As A Wild Season Ends, What Next?

April 16, 2010

Last week’s unprecedented rains and devastating floods in Rio de Janeiro are — I think — the final scene in this long season of dramatic weather. The phenomena that produced six months of headlines are fading. Of course, that leaves us to wonder what comes next. El Ni√±o, as usual, grabbed most of the attention this year. The cyclical warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean contributed to …

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No Pontoons For Santa Claus

December 24, 2009

The ice is nice and thick at the North Pole this Christmas Eve. Santa and his team will be able to use the sled without adding pontoons. Neither global warming nor El Ni√±o will stop The Jolly One from making his appointed rounds. Al Gore startled many observers at the recent United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen when he claimed there is a 75 percent chance that the Arctic sea …

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The Bright Side Of El Niño

June 12, 2009

A developing El Ni√±o is not usually good news, but signs that the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean is heating up should elicit smiles from hurricane-wary residents of the East and Gulf coasts. Officially, the National Hurricane Center is predicting an average season for the Atlantic Basin, with a 70 percent chance that there will be nine to 14 named storms, of which four to seven would become hurricanes, with one …

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