"We are now ready to start our way down the Great Unknown..." Must-read snapshot of what lies ahead in the climate crisis by Jeff Masters

Increasingly intense widespread drought is my #1 concern for climate change.

The Atlantic is quiet for now, but the Pacific is cooking. Typhoon #Shanshan may slam into Japan as a Cat 4 equivalent, and TS #Hone will swing close to the Big Island of Hawai'i. More from Jeff Masters and me: Climate Connections yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/the-pa…

Main Topic: Bizarre ‘Pregnant Cars’ Emerge from Chinese Heatwave On the Extreme Temperature Diary- SUN 8/25/24 At: guyonclimate.com +new #climate +record temps via Extreme Temperatures Around The World +#weather links Prof Michael E. Mann Prof. Peter Strachan Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️‍🌈 Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

Tough-to-predict Typhoon #Shanshan is still aiming for Japan, but it'll arrive farther west, later, and perhaps weaker than earlier thought. More on Shanshan – and the story of Japan's only Cat 5-level landfall – from Jeff Masters and me: Climate Connections yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/typhoo…

What's happening in the current Atlantic hurricane season aligns with my recent study, where we found that a wet monsoon & a northward-shifted AEJ-AEW system reduce and delay TC genesis. Check out the physical mechanisms in our paper: doi.org/10.1029/2023MS….

For each county, this map shows when the last time that any part of it saw a hurricane (note: that means 74 mph or higher sustained winds - which is more than many perceive!). Especially for inland counties, this is approximate. White means none since 1851. #tropics #hurricane

After an eerily long pause, there are now three Atlantic systems being watched for potential tropical development over the next week. September is almost here :-O A pre-holiday update from Jeff Masters and me at Climate Connections: yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/labor-…

Climate change is going to get way less abstract for people, real soon. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/when-w…

A recent dive “identified 28 living coral colonies. Everything else they surveyed — thousands of corals that had been raised and carefully planted in previous years — had perished, the latest victims of the world’s decades-long addiction to planet-heating fossil fuels.”

The lead image from the post today from Bob Henson and myself says volumes about what is going on in the tropical Atlantic this week -- not much. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/a-plac…

The Atlantic is filled with weak disturbances unlikely to develop, so it's time to talk about typhoons! Bob Henson and I lay out the latest on Typhoon Yagi, expected to hit southern China Friday morning (U.S. EDT): yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/powerf…

In Wenchang, Hainan, the strong winds of Typhoon Makar blew away pedestrians

You've all seen the viral video of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center flight into Ian in 2022. There's so much more to unpack, including a new era of hurricane hunting. This is the story of the scientists using AI-powered drones to hunt the world's most powerful storms. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/a-new-…

JTWC: #Yagi will hit Haiphong (pop. 2 million) as a 115-kt Cat 4. Then Yagi “WILL BE SLOW TO WEAKEN AS IT TRAVERSES THE MARSHES OF THE RED RIVER DELTA, DUE TO THE BROWN-WATER EFFECT…A 100-KT TYPHOON OVER OR VERY NEAR HANOI IS A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY.” 8.6 million live in Hanoi.