NOAA: Preliminary Analysis Concludes Pacific Northwest Heatwave Was a 1,000-Year Event… Hopefully This post first appeared on climate.gov and was written by Rebecca Lindsey An international team of weather and climate experts known as the “World Weather Attribution” project has analyzed the late June heatwave in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and come to a preliminary conclusion that the event was a roughly 1-in-1,000-year event in today’s climate. (The results are preliminary because, […] WeatherBrains | July 21, 2021 0 Comments