(Image credit: Background, NOAA/CIRA/Colorado State University; First ‘2,’ Heidi Badenock; ‘0,’ NOAA; Second ‘2,’ Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife; ‘4,’ Bob Henson.) There’s a boatload of stories to be told on how climate change and extreme weather are intersecting, and how humans are grappling with the mix. At Yale Climate Connections, we’ve been working this beat for years, including through our Eye on the Storm department led by longtime meteorologists and weather/climate writers Dr. Jeff Masters and Bob Henson. We know not every reader will have caught up with all 151 Eye on the Storm posts that we’ve published since January 1 of this year. To help make things easier, we’re highlighting a few of our favorites below. Many were written by Jeff and Bob, while others were penned by occasional or one-time contributors that enlivened and broadened the range of our coverage. Resurfacing some deep dives The capstone of multi-part Eye on the Storm posts in 2024 was an epic summer three-parter by Jeff on how (and indeed whether) the United States is truly preparing to adapt to the wrenching changes that climate change has already begun to bring, and the extent to which extreme weather might or might not jump-start that process. Can a colossal extreme weather event galvanize action on the climate crisis? (24 July) When will climate change turn life in the United States upside down? (19 August) What should you do to prepare for the climate change storm? (20 August) In December, Bob looked into the potential for a collapse of the Atlantic Multidecadal Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, the crucial looping flow that courses through the Atlantic Ocean (incorporating the Gulf Stream). This circulation is expected to slow down through the century and beyond, and there’s increasing concern that a near-total collapse of the loop […]
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