NOAA August 2020 Outlook: West Hotter and Drier Than Normal, East Hotter and Wetter This August 2020 outlook first appeared on climate.gov and was written by Tom Di Liberto We’ve entered the dog days of summer across the United States which, along with continued summer heat, comes a climatological increase in hurricane activity in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. (The season’s average peaks occurs around September 10). The August 2020 outlook favors hotter-than-average temperatures along […] Weather WeatherBrains | August 5, 2020 0 Comments
UCI Engineers Evaluate Snow Drought in Different Parts of the World Western United States snowmelt deficit found to be of increasing intensity and length in recent years Environmental engineers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new framework for characterizing snow droughts around the world. Using this tool to analyze conditions from 1980 to 2018, the researchers found a 28-percent increase in the length of intensified snow-water deficits in […] Weather WeatherBrains | August 4, 2020 0 Comments
Tropical Storm Hanna Intensifies Into First Atlantic Hurricane of 2020 Hanna, a tropical storm that has so far been harmless, has intensified into a Category 1 hurricane. Related: Brain Post: How Hurricanes Get Named The storm formed on July 22 in the dead center of the Gulf of Mexico. The storm has been tracking west ever since and is expected to make landfall between noon and 6 pm central time […] Weather Clay Malott | July 27, 2020 0 Comments
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