Rough Winds: Extreme Weather and Climate Change (Kindle Single)

For the last few years, and especially in 2011, a new extreme weather event seems to pop up each week. Some decide to stick around: Texas and Oklahoma have been suffering from historic droughts for six months, with no sign of relief. No sooner does Hurricane Irene disappear than Tropical Storm Lee appears to flood Louisiana and stir up wildfires in nearby Texas. We seem beset by more, and more extreme, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, torrential rainstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards th

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Weather pattern


Image by gnuru
Climate pattern observed more than Fayetteville, NC, March 22, 2004. This photo is really two separate photographs stitched together and cropped but otherwise untouched.

Predictable patterns fueled winds that walloped Davis County
By Steve Fidel, Deseret News CENTERVILLE — The severe wind that toppled huge trucks, uprooted trees, downed energy lines and sent shingles sailing on Thursday was component of a climate pattern that stretched from Montana to southern California. …
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Weather Journal: December Comes In Like a Lamb
This warm and dry climate over Higher New York has been locked in with the support of La Nina, and an anomalously stronger and stronger NAO signal, a shorter-term climate pattern far more closely associated to winter circumstances on the East Coast. …
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Potent Santa Ana winds sweep across Southland
A weather service official warns of 'explosive' fire conditions. Tevin Brown skateboards house on 10th Street West as winds start to pick up in Lancaster late in the afternoon Wednesday. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times / November 1, 2011) By Robert J. …
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