The cold front will reach the Great Plains and parts of South as low as Atlanta next week, while a coastal storm may threaten the East Coast from the Mid-Atlantic to eastern New England.

The polar jet stream, which marks the boundary between cold polar air and warmer mid-latitude air, can dip south from its usual perch circling the Arctic and bring freezing cold temperatures.  The pattern is complicated by the overall warming of the Arctic, which is occurring at a faster rate than for other areas of the […]

All of Kentucky’s 120 counties reported flooding after being deluged with between 3-8 inches of rain beginning Friday night. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet described the impact as “historic.”

“If the island sinks, I will sink with it,” Delfino Davies says, his smile not fading for a second. The government has said they face “imminent risk” from rising sea levels, which are likely to render the island uninhabitable by 2050.

Liability experts equipped with climate models had been uneasily eyeing such a scenario, realizing in recent years that wildfire now had similar system-crashing potential as a major earthquake to upend lives and destabilize California’s $10 trillion residential property market.

An area of land nearly a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to arid dryland in the past three decades. “Unlike droughts – temporary periods of low rainfall – aridity represents a permanent, unrelenting transformation.”

Storms that form are tending to become more intense, with higher wind speeds, heavier rainfall, and more severe storm surge. So while the total number of storms doesn’t appear to be changing, dangerous storms are becoming more common.      

Zambia’s worst electricity blackouts in memory have been caused by a severe drought in the region that has left the critical Kariba dam with insufficient water to run its hydroelectric turbines. Months of drought exacerbated by warming temperatures have put Zambia’s hydroelectric station on the brink of completely shutting down.