U.S. Endures 18 Major Weather and Climate Disasters in 2021 October 11, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan The U.S. has endured 18 major weather and climate disasters so far this year that killed a combined 538 people...
Ida’s Inland Path May Reveal Hidden Risk, Test Mapping Methods of Hurricane Floods September 2, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan and Leslie Kaufman With remnants of Ida delivering downpours and fierce winds from North Carolina to New Jersey, U.S. government methods for assessing...
Storm Henri Causes Flooding, Power Outages in Northeast; Heavy Rains to Continue August 23, 2021 By Lars Paulsson and Brian K. Sullivan Henri is soaking the U.S. Northeast with rain and disrupting transport after being downgraded to a tropical depression. The former...
Tropical Storm Henri Could Strike New York, New England as Hurricane Starting Sunday August 20, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan Tropical Storm Henri is set to grow into a hurricane before slamming the U.S. Northeast anywhere from Long Island to...
California Wildfires Are Exhausting 10,000-Strong Army Fighting Them August 19, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan and David R. Baker There are over 10,000 firefighters battling unprecedented blazes in California, but that isn’t enough, and the state is having a...
Tropical Storm Warnings Posted in Eastern Caribbean as System Gathers Power August 10, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan Tropical storm warnings have been posted across the eastern Caribbean as a system gathers power and takes shape southeast of...
‘Sunny Day’ Floods Will Increasingly Inundate U.S. Coasts as Sea Levels Rise: NOAA July 15, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan Record high-tide flooding washed over U.S. coasts in the past year, and rising sea levels are expected to send the...
Drought Indicators in Western States Flash Warnings of the ‘Big One’ June 24, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan and Elizabeth Elkin Sarah Brunner opened the irrigation spigots on her farm in March, three months early. The rain should have still been...
La Niña Is Fading But California, Gulf Coast Still Face Risks April 12, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan La Niña, the cooling of the equatorial Pacific that shifts weather patterns the world over, is fading away. But California...
Most of Texas Deep Freeze $90 Billion in Losses Avoidable, Modeler Says February 25, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan Texas’s deep freeze and power outages last week could cost as much as $90 billion in losses, and most of...