How "kitty cats" are wrecking the home insurance industry in the U.S. No, not the felines!
Learn about "nat cats" and "kitty cats" in a new @grist report: "Supercharged thunderstorms and tornadoes are ravaging the Midwest, driving insurance costs to record highs."
#HurricaneSeason2024 is underway in the eastern Pacific. Two disturbances south of Mexico are being monitored by the NHC, and a tropical depression could form this weekend or early next week.
A blistering heat wave has been toasting Asia for several weeks, resulting in hundreds of deaths and canceling schools across the region. A scientist for the World Weather Attribution, a meteorological research group, says only human-caused climate change could be responsible for the increased probability of extreme heat in places like the Philippines. “The heat wave exacerbated already precarious conditions faced by internally displaced people, migrants and those in refugee camps and conflict zones across West Asia,” the organization said in a new study. Read more from CBS News.
Picture of the #sun my wife took at our home in Northwest Portland (CN85pm) earlier today. The large #sunspot area giving us tonight’s #aurora display is visible on the right side just south of the equator.
The Greek philosopher who was perhaps the first weather forecaster
"His book On Signs, written in the fourth century BC, was the first attempt to gather weather lore into a single volume. Aristotle created a theory of weather in his book Meteorology, but his successor attempted to give guidance on practical weather prediction, making him perhaps the first published weather forecaster."
Rare "high risk" warning issued: Central U.S. braces for "significant" tornado outbreak.
USA Today reports: "A high risk is the highest-tier hazardous weather forecast that the Storm Prediction Center issues. ... The forecast comes a week after a tornado outbreak killed four people in Oklahoma."