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Bernadette Woods Placky
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Chief Meteorologist, #ClimateMatters Director |
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For the #fireweather archives: the day/night cycle on the #McKinneyFire surging to an est. 30,000-40,000 acres burned in close to 24 hours from 7/29/2022 to 7/30/2022 #CAwx
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2) Why this matters:
Our infrastructure is not updated for our current climate, let alone what's coming.
There are ways to manage our water systems for the increase in rain, but we also need to accelerate our emissions reductions to limit future warming.
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Climate change is supercharging our water cycle.
1) We live on a water planet (about 70% is water).
A warmer atmosphere evaporates more water vapor into it, so when there is a storm, it can produce even more rain.
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Over the last 50 years, rainfall in Huntington, WV has intensified by 28%. When it rains, it pours (more): climatecentral.org/climate-matter #ClimateMatters
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Still today, with more rain on the way...
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The Ky National Guard just flew us over Jackson in Breathitt Co. What it looks like today. Making our way to other flooded areas now. @LEX18News
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One Poynter training, with , has hit the road in key swing states to teach journalists best practices for covering immigration, inflation and the economy, health care and drug costs, climate change and disinformation.
Today: in Pennsylvania 🙌
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High #ClimateShiftIndex levels in the Pacific Northwest tell us the dangerously hot weather has a significant climate change fingerprint.
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New Release: launched the new HEAT.GOV website that offers tools & information for communities facing #ExtremeHeat
See our press release:
noaa.gov/news-release/b
+ Follow for more
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As the media landscapes continues to evolve, here are some insightful thoughts from a journalist about how to evolve the current system.
📰#Article "Améliorer la compréhension du public sur le changement climatique en soutenant les présentateurs météo".
✍️par et publié par ▶️ rdcu.be/cSnai
#ClimateMatters #FIMC2022
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Greenland ice melt kicks into high gear, with 18 billion tons of water pouring into the N. Atlantic in 3 days. Enough to cover all of W. Va. in a foot of water OR raise global sea levels by 0.05 mm (per a reader's calculation).
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Great story on 60minutes on how the Bahamas are using #microgrids to increase energy #resilience in the face of increasingly intense hurricanes fueled by #climatechange
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“The main power plant for this island is literally 25 miles south of here. That’s 25 miles of line that has to be rebuilt.” In the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, the Bahamas is reconsidering how to provide electricity to its vulnerable islands. cbsn.ws/3aXgd7R
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🚨 Check out our newest publication in , "Improving public understanding of climate change by supporting weathercasters," to honor the 10th anniversary of our Climate Matters program.
Hey weathercasters - we see you doing your thing!
nature.com/articles/s4155
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Exciting news!
Thanks to all involved in this very collaborative effort.
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New & exciting! ‘Improving public understanding of climate change by supporting weathercasters’ published in @NatureClimate. Congratulations to authors; @MaibachEd, @HeidiCullen, @BernWoodsPlacky, @JoeWitte7 & @JimGandyWX. Thank you to @NOAAClimate, @NASAClimate, @ClimateComms..
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Today and unveiled their new home kit for the 2022/23 season, incorporating the climate stripes on the sleeves and shorts.
The stripes used on the kit represent changes in temperature in Reading since the club was founded in 1871.
#HoopsForTheFuture
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Putting the recent record heat in context.
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New: we built a tool to translate record-setting temperatures from last week's heatwave in Europe to cities in the U.S.
w/ @kevinschaul @NaemaAhmed @JSamenow
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro
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The influence of climate change on today's forecast overnight temperatures is stretching the climate shift index -- level 5s all over: climatecentral.org/tools/climate- #climatecentral
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Dear photo agencies -- stop giving us journos photos of people joyfully playing in fountains during deadly heat waves. Please.
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The #ClimateShiftIndex analyzes daily temps to find the influence of climate change - and some of today's heat was made much more likely and more intense because of climate change. (Up to 5x more likely!)
Explore the tool here: climatecentral.org/tools/climate-
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This short clip is a master class in how to communicate the risk of climate impacts and the urgency of climate action. Give it a listen!
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Here’s the Lord Turner clip. Every word, from a business and finance leader.
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Attention journalists in OH, PA, and FL.
Join us for an engaging workshop on some of the key topics important to people.
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#Florida far outpacing other Southeastern states in ramping up #solarenergy capacity. Despite FPL's obstructionism in distributed #solar (rooftop), that yellow portion of the bar graph is still bigger than in all other states. And utility-scale solar is growing exponentially.
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24 all-time records in UK today, inc. the all-time UK record shattering 104.4 in London. This event is virtually impossible without a heated climate, supported by recent research at the . London btw is further north than Calgary & any US city. GFX: CoolWx 24 hr loop
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Amid the heat, here is the wildfire risk for Europe.
Climate change is increasing the risk for wildfires.
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40C in the UK.
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For the first time ever, 40 Celsius has provisionally been exceeded in the UK
London Heathrow reported a temperature of 40.2°C at 12:50 today
Temperatures are still climbing in many places, so remember to stay #WeatherAware 
#heatwave #heatwave2022
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Denver has now had 16 days of 95 degrees or hotter and 4 days at or above 100 degrees! It is not just weather - our climate is warming! #cowx
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Scorching hot across western Europe with profound records being shattered.
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18 July 1976 (46 years ago): Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
CC: @nadiacomaneci10, @Olympics
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#ThisDayInHistory #History #OnThisDay #OTD #NadiaComăneci #Gymnastics #Olympics
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Let's not forget about the unmistakable fingerprints of #ClimateChange which, science shows, makes it more likely we'll see hotter, low-temperatures. This image shows today's very hot, daily low's were made 5x more likely because of climate change.
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Even though the emergency early morning field visit on Gries #Glacier was fantastic, I came home with a strange feeling: 1.5m of loss already at the topmost stake on 3100m. Normally, we should see 1-2 m of snow there at this time of the year. And summer is still running hot...
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#Glaciers in the Alps are so completely off from what we've seen before. I'm really alarmed by the situation.
The measurements collected at Griesgletscher today show that even with respect to the previous record in 2003 we're one month ahead with melting. And no relief in sight.
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From midday temp reading across Europe. We’ll likely have several all-time records by the day’s end.
Plot> coolwx.com/record/
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We have not seen anything like it. We can't compare this looming heat emergency to summer 1976.
A warmer world, thanks to human induced climate change, makes it almost effortless to break extreme heat thresholds. We continue to see this across the planet - not just in Europe.
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The Mississippi River and its tributaries
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Today, tens of millions of Americans awoke to a hot summer morning made 5x more likely by climate change. #HeatImpactsHealth #IncreasedCoolingCosts
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Q: What's a couple of degrees?
A: It's a whole new climate.
Check out Frank Billingsley's latest piece on our shifting future summers.
#ClimateMatters
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"The chargers will be in addition to the 3,250 chargers that GM is currently installing with EVgo, which the automaker has said will be completed by the end of 2025"
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