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Thursday, June 2, 2022

06-02-2022-0348 - Mid 70s for Thursday, but cooler, stormier weather is on the way ; ‘Every storm different’: National Weather Service says pay attention, be prepared

Mid 70s for Thursday, but cooler, stormier weather is on the way – Kris
Posted: June 1, 2022 7:11 PM
by Kris Crocker


https://www.kxly.com/mid-70s-for-thursday-but-cooler-stormier-weather-is-on-the-way-kris/


‘Every storm different’: National Weather Service says pay attention, be prepared

Published 6:42 pm Wednesday, June 1, 2022


By Rita Lebleu


https://www.americanpress.com/2022/06/01/every-storm-different-national-weather-service-says-pay-attention-be-prepared/


The 25 Strangest Weather Events One Senior Meteorologist has Seen in His Lifetime


By Jonathan Erdman
March 02, 2022


https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/2022-02-24-strangest-weather


Five Years Ago, the Atlantic Hurricane Season Started in April

By Jonathan Erdman
April 18, 2022

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2022-04-14-atlantic-hurricane-season-early-start

Severe Storms Could Pack Damaging Winds, Isolated Tornadoes From Southeast to Southern Great Lakes
By weather.com meteorologists

March 23, 2022

https://weather.com/safety/tornado/news/2022-03-21-severe-thunderstorm-outbreak-south-tornadoes-flooding-rain

Kansas Tornado Shreds Homes, Flings Cars

By Jonathan Belles and Jan Wesner Childs
April 30, 2022

https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/2022-04-29-tornado-andover-kansas-nebraska-oklahoma


Record December heat leading to 'unprecedented' extreme weather threat


By Pedram Javaheri and Derek Van Dam, CNN Meteorologists

Updated 3:27 PM ET, Wed December 15, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/weather/tornadoes-hurricane-force-winds-extreme-fire-record-heat/index.html








The Weather Channel Launched 40 Years Ago. One of the Strongest El Niños and Least Active Hurricane Stretches Followed.

By Jonathan Erdman
May 02, 2022

https://weather.com/news/news/2022-04-20-twc-40-years-strong-elnino-few-hurricanes




Texas’ power grid held up during last week’s winter weather. Experts say it wasn’t seriously tested.

Experts say it’s unclear whether changes mandated by Texas lawmakers to prevent widespread power outages like those last February made a significant difference during a weaker winter storm.

BY JOSHUA FECHTER FEB. 8, 202211 AM CENTRAL

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/08/texas-winter-weather-power-grid/



Climate change could make weather harder to predict
Rising temperatures could reduce how far meteorologists can see into the future, study finds

By Jeremy Deaton
Updated January 25, 2022 at 11:24 a.m. EST|Published January 25, 2022 at 11:14 a.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/01/25/climate-change-weather-unpredictable/



The 21 Strangest Things About 2021's Weather
By Jonathan ErdmanJanuary 07, 2022
https://weather.com/news/news/2021-12-08-strangest-weather-2021
MSU moves to remote learning, telework for afternoon, urges weather caution throughout Tuesday
https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2022/03/msu-moves-remote-learning-telework-afternoon-urges-weather-caution
Apr 6, 2022
Hubble Probes Extreme Weather on Ultra-Hot Jupiters
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/hubble-probes-extreme-weather-on-ultra-hot-jupiters

A first: Scientists grow plants in soil from the moon
https://news.ufl.edu/2022/05/lunar-plants/

Climate: World getting ‘measurably closer’ to 1.5-degree threshold


Wildfires raging across parts of the western USA turned the sky over San Francisco orange.
© Unsplash/Patrick Perkins
Wildfires raging across parts of the western USA turned the sky over San Francisco orange.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/05/1117842


An image from satellite data shows the strong Loop Current and swirling eddies. Christopher Henze, NASA/Ames
Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season: The Loop Current, a fueler of monster storms, is looking a lot like it did in 2005, the year of Katrina
Published: May 18, 2022 8.14am EDT Updated: May 24, 2022 11.26am EDT
https://theconversation.com/bad-news-for-the-2022-hurricane-season-the-loop-current-a-fueler-of-monster-storms-is-looking-a-lot-like-it-did-in-2005-the-year-of-katrina-183197

The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths
J. Emory Parker
By J. Emory Parker 
https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/10/the-five-pandemics-driving-1-million-u-s-covid-deaths/

April 20, 2022
Lasers trigger magnetism in atomically thin quantum materials

James Urton
UW News
https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/04/20/ferromagnetism-quantum-materials/





06-02-2022-0345 - The day a tsunami-like flood struck a landlocked mountain town

 


The day a tsunami-like flood struck a landlocked mountain town

More than 130 years ago a small town was wiped out in minutes when a 75-foot-high tsunami-like wave stormed along at 40 mph and triggered a black “death mist” as it laid waste to the land.