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500,000 in California Are Without Electricity in Planned Shutdown

Thu, 2019-10-10 08:04 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

A map on the website of Pacific Gas & Electric showing locations impacted by the blackout on Wednesday morning. The purple icons represent areas where the power was shut off preemptively.  Credit pgecurrents.com

CLICK HERE - PG&E - Outage Map

Pacific Gas & Electric is cutting electricity as a precaution against sparking wildfires in high-wind conditions.

nytimes.com - by Thomas Fuller - October 9, 2019

A deliberate power outage that spanned large parts of Northern California on Wednesday sent hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for gasoline and other essentials as strong, gusty winds and months of dry weather put the state on alert for wildfires.

The state’s largest power utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, said it had cut power to 500,000 customers soon after midnight. A second round of cuts affecting 250,000 more customers in the hills surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area had been scheduled for noon but was delayed. . . .

 . . . Once the two phases are complete, around 2.5 million people will be without electricity, according to one estimate.

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Climate Change: UN Panel Signals Red Alert on 'Blue Planet'

Wed, 2019-09-25 21:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - IPCC - SPECIAL REPORT ON THE OCEAN AND CRYOSPHERE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE - Summary for Policymakers

bbc.com - by Matt McGrath - September 25, 2019

According to a UN panel of scientists, waters are rising, the ice is melting, and species are moving habitat due to human activities.

And the loss of permanently frozen lands threatens to unleash even more carbon, hastening the decline.

There is some guarded hope that the worst impacts can be avoided, with deep and immediate cuts to carbon emissions.

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CLICK HERE - IPCC - Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

CLICK HERE - IPCC - Press Release - Choices made now are critical for the future of our ocean and cryosphere

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Scientists Predict Climate Change Will Make Dangerous Heat Waves Far More Common

Wed, 2019-07-17 07:45 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days (2019)

CLICK HERE - PAPER - Increased frequency of and population exposure to extreme heat index days in the United States during the 21st century

time.com - by Jamie Ducharme - July 16, 2019

People all across the U.S. have been sweating through heat waves this summer, and new research suggests they should get used to it.

Over the next century, climate change will likely make extreme heat conditions—and their concordant health risks—much more frequent in nearly every part of the U.S., according to a paper published in the journal Environmental Research Communications. By the end of the century, it says, parts of the Gulf Coast states could experience more than 120 days per year that feel like they top 100°F.

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'Dangerous' Heat Wave to Scorch Central, Eastern US This Week

Tue, 2019-07-16 19:25 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

usatoday.com - by Doyle Rice - July 16, 2019

The hottest weather of the summer is poised to spread across much of the central and then eastern U.S. over the next several days.  

Several cities are likely to see their highest temperatures of the summer so far, including Chicago, Detroit, New York City and Washington, D.C., according to the Weather Channel. Many spots are forecast to approach 100 degrees over the next few days.

Factoring in the heat index, temperatures will be even more brutal . . .

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CLICK HERE - NOAA - National Weather Service - MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX FORECASTS

 

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Floods - 2019

Sat, 2019-07-13 17:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

AN EXPANDING LIST OF NEWS AND INFORMATION RESOURCES FOR THE 2019 FLOODS . . .

CLICK HERE - FEMA - Midwest - Local Resources - Severe Storms and Flooding

CLICK HERE - FEMA - Disaster Declarations by Year - 2019

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CLICK HERE - City braces after levee along Arkansas River fails; mandatory evacuation issued in Jefferson County - May 31, 2019

CLICK HERE - Large areas of the central US are under water -- and the threat isn't going away - May 30, 2019

CLICK HERE - Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana face flood of 'historic magnitude' - May 29, 2019

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Tropical Weather - Invest 92L - Barry - 2019

Thu, 2019-07-11 19:42 — Kathy Gilbeaux

AN EXPANDING LIST OF NEWS AND INFORMATION RESOURCES FOR INVEST 92L - BARRY . . .

CLICK HERE - National Weather Service - Barry Information

CLICK HERE - Levee system credited for protecting Terrebonne Parish from Barry - July 15, 2019

CLICK HERE - Levees overtopped in areas of Plaquemines Parish - July 13, 2019

CLICK HERE - All flights out of Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans canceled due to Barry - July 13, 2019

CLICK HERE - Coast Guard rescues 12 trapped in Terrebonne Parish - July 13, 2019

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'Everyone Would Have Left': Putting Lessons From Hurricane Michael To Work

Sat, 2019-06-08 01:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

A boat moved by Hurricane Michael rests near a canal in May in Mexico Beach, Fla. Seven months after the hurricane made landfall, the town is still littered with heavily damaged or destroyed homes and businesses.  Scott Olson/Getty Images

npr.org - by Greg Allen - June 7, 2019

As another hurricane season begins, emergency managers and other officials throughout the Southeast and along the Gulf Coast are applying lessons they learned last year during Hurricane Michael. Those lessons include how they conduct evacuations . . .

 . . . we're going to start seeing a lot of things change . . . 

 . . . Among those likely changes: how people prepare for storms, how many evacuate and how strong new construction on Florida's Panhandle will need to be to survive hurricanes like Michael.

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Tornado Activity in the US May Have Broken a Nearly 40-Year Record

Wed, 2019-05-29 08:37 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

FILE - In this May 23, 2019 file. Photo, tornado damage is seen in Jefferson City, Mo.  AP

kens5.com - Associated Press and TEGNA Staff - May 29, 2019

After several quiet years, the United States was threatening to break a major record for tornado activity this week as a volatile mix of warm, moist air from the Southeast and persistent cold from the Rockies clashed and stalled over the Midwest . . .

. . . The storms Tuesday were the 12th straight day that at least eight tornadoes were reported to the National Weather Service. If the service confirms that they were tornadoes, it would break the U.S. record for most consecutive days with at least eight tornadoes in each of those days . . .

. . . Scientists also say climate change is responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme weather such as storms, droughts, floods and fires, but without extensive study they cannot directly link a single weather event to the changing climate.

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NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT - HURRICANE FLORENCE (AL062018) - 31 August–17 September 2018

Fri, 2019-05-03 22:03 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT - HURRICANE FLORENCE (AL062018) - 31 August–17 September 2018 (98 page .PDF report)

Stacy R. Stewart and Robbie Berg - National Hurricane Center - 3 May 2019

Florence was a long-lived, category 4 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that made landfall along the southeastern coast of North Carolina near the upper end of category 1. Florence caused devastating freshwater flooding across much of the southeastern United States and significant storm surge flooding in portions of eastern North Carolina. Florence resulted in 22 direct deaths and was also associated with 30 indirect fatalities.

CLICK HERE - National Hurricane Center - 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season

CLICK HERE - National Weather Service - Historical Hurricane Florence, September 12-15, 2018

 

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National Storm Surge Hazard Maps

Tue, 2019-04-30 08:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=d9ed7904dbec441a9c4dd7b277935fad&entry=1

This national depiction of storm surge flooding vulnerability helps people living in hurricane-prone coastal areas along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Hawaii, and Hispaniola to evaluate their risk to the storm surge hazard. These maps make it clear that storm surge is not just a beachfront problem, with the risk of storm surge extending many miles inland from the immediate coastline in some areas. If you discover via these maps that you live in an area vulnerable to storm surge, find out today if you live in a hurricane storm surge evacuation zone as prescribed by your local emergency management agency. If you do live in such an evacuation zone, decide today where you will go and how you will get there, if and when you're instructed by your emergency manager to evacuate. If you don't live in one of those evacuation zones, then perhaps you can identify someone you care about who does live in an evacuation zone, and you could plan in advance to be their inland evacuation destination – if you live in a structure that is safe from the wind and outside of flood-prone areas.

National Hurricane Center - National Storm Surge Hazard Maps - Version 2
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/nationalsurge/

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