To celebrate the last five years of outstanding work by meteorologists Jeff Masters and Bob Henson on Yale’s climate connection, we put together some of our favorite “Eye of the Storm” stories. Masters and Henson, as well as Michael Lowry, Kait Parker, Charlie Randall and Alexandra Steele all cover hurricanes, heat waves, ice storms, and more, all with a climate lens. Their work creates communities, prepares for extreme weather and helps people decide when and where to evacuate hurricanes.
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Without further ado, here are 10 of our favorite stories in the past five years.
1. When will climate change turn American life upside down?
In this article, Jeff Masters explores stress points such as insurance crisis, food shocks, and catastrophic extreme weather. He ended with some hope and the meaning of what we really have the ability to create change.
“Very tough times. There are potential for counterproductive climate anxiety and doom, and I provide some observations and speculation here on how planetary crises work, leveraging my 45 years of experience as a meteorologist, including four years of flying with hurricane hunters and a 20-year blog on extreme weather and climate change.”
2. Underwater “climate paradise” idea?
Before Hurricane Helen, Asheville, North Carolina, was called a climate paradise, which would be most severely affected by climate change. After the storm, Bob Henson wrote this article, raising the question of whether anywhere is truly safe from climate change.
“Geographic 'cures' to problems do tend to have limits. The tendrils of a human-altered climate, interwoven with natural variable, have a way of touching us even when we think we're beyond their grap. All the more reason, then, to work towards major emission cuts sooner rather than later, and to repeatedly a commitment to climate adaptation – including timely warnings and nimble response when a black-swan event looms on the horizonn.”
3. Extreme Weather Trivia Competition: Can You Beat the Experts?
Meteorologists Jeff Masters, Bob Henson and John Morales face to face in a trivia hosted by meteorologist Alexandra Steele to see who will be crowned as an extreme weather expert. You can watch them play games and take the quiz yourself to see how to stack.
4. Portrait of the Kansas town that goes all out to clean energy after a devastating tornado
Photographer Charlie Randall contributed this amazing photography series to Greensburg, Kansas. After the tornado destroyed the town, residents decided to turn the green back.
“They made the decision not to rebuild towns as they did before, but to use this tragedy as an opportunity to reinvent Greensburg to become a pioneer in the clean energy revolution. Today, many cities and towns around the world are competing to strive to build environmentally friendly buildings and turn to renewable energy – stepping on Greensburg to avoid the climate crisis to increase the two decodedades almost twice'''
5. What new data reveals data on how hurricanes kill
Hurricane expert Michael Lowry excavated data showing that rain has become the cause of most hurricane deaths over the past decade. Prior to 2013, storm surges were identified as the deadliest element of tropical cyclones.
“The impact of tropical cyclones on inland flooding has been central in recent years. Hurricane Matthew caused widespread inland flooding and dozens of deaths in 2016, and Hurricane Florence in 2018, which caused massive rainfall deaths that filled river basins in multiple states. In many cases, in many cases, more and more mountains extending into more and more territory, which is an increasing range of mountains delayed, with hundreds of miles ranges being hundreds of miles. For those on the periphery, the forecast cone can be particularly dangerous.”
6.30 A good tool to determine the risk of floods in the United States
Jeff Masters has compiled a list of tools for news habits to help readers understand the risks of flooding inland and coastal areas. Masters can keep this post up to date when new tools are online.
“In an era of downpour, sea level rise and deteriorating flood infrastructure, it is crucial to understand the flood risk of your property. In the U.S., in recent years, in every state, there have been multiple flood disasters, and we are here to provide a comprehensive look of these tools that can help you understand how flooding affects you.”
7. What is the probability that extreme weather will cause global food shocks?
The masters have written many excellent articles on the impact of climate change on agriculture and food. This piece investigates extreme weather, especially drought, which can lead to food shocks and economic crises.
“Extreme drought can affect multiple cereal growing areas simultaneously, leading to 'food shock' events, which could trigger food prices spikes, leading to massive hunger, wars and severe global recession. Anthropogenic climate change is a risk for hiking, as this simultaneous drought and its associated heat waves have continued to increase in recent years due to climate change.”
8. Build a better hurricane “Uncertainty Cone”
Bob Henson examines the National Hurricane Center’s “Uncertainty Cone” designed to help people understand the areas with the highest hits in hurricanes. Cones are often misunderstood by the public.
“The cones have created their own confusion, some of which have been eased sharply during Hurricane Ian.
9. Climate change leads to faster intensification of Atlantic hurricanes
Masters wrote that climate change has a role in rapidly strengthening hurricanes, which occur more frequently than in the past.
“A quick strengthening of hurricanes like Michael and Harvey, strengthening hurricanes before landing is one of the most dangerous storms because they can be caught off guard, risk off guard, under-risk, under-evacuation work and massive casualties. A particular concern is that the intensity of intensity increases as the storm increases – they increase due to the intensity of intensity.”
10. “Isolation, Loneliness, Painful Death” Encountering with Heat Wave (Henson, 2020)
Henson writes about public health efforts to save lives during heat waves and accurately track human losses afterwards – and what can be done as climate change changes. Phoenix has focused on urban areas, with annual thermal mortality tripling over the past decade.
“The Chicago experience in 1995 has filled the country with a wave of fanaticism due to serious public health threats like tornadoes or hurricanes – it’s a wise move because in the long run, there’s more heat than any other weather disaster. ”
Please read also: For the ruthless people in America's hottest big cities, heat waves are ruthless killers Author: Osha Davidson
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