Image: Lakeway City Park on Lake Travis, 2011 Drought of Record, elevation approximately 630. The elevation for February 2024 was 631.34. First published at the Dallas Federal Reserve by Jayashankar…
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Record flooding on Onion Creek, Austin, October 2013Hydrology is one of our advanced culture’s most important engineering design areas because so much of our lives depend on not being flooded…
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Western Wildfires Increase Extremeness of Weather in the Central US by a Third Climate change: Expect the unexpected. How can western wildfires increase the extremeness of weather in the Central…
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Ice-rich permafrost exposed on the face of Itkillik Bluff on the North Slope of Alaska. Unsurprisingly, we have roundly exceeded climate norms in our old climate. Records continue to be…
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Bruce MeltonFirst Published on TruthoutNovember 13, 2018 Titanic II is set to sail in 2022. It’s a $500 million replica of the doomed Titanic that hit a North Atlantic iceberg in 1912.…
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The Thomas Fire, viewed from Via Real, just east of Lambert Road and the Bella Vista Polo Club, in Summerland, California, on December 11, 2017. (Photo: Doc Searls) By Bruce…
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We have all seen it, at least in the news. Most of us have been impacted by it because it is all around us. Extreme weather events have increased in…
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Members of the South Carolina’s Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (SC-HART) perform rescue operations in Port Arthur, Texas, August 31, 2017. The SC-HART team consists of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter…
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Increasing Extremes: Hurricane Harvey and the Jet Stream "We can't tell if this particular weather event was caused by climate change or not." This is one of the most…
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Lake Buchanan, Central Texas, Drought 2011. Though generally, rainfall only bounced to record low levels once, there were several pulses (2003, 2007, 2009) where inflows to the lakes were at…
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Drought kill live oak in Central Texas: These trees illustrate a portion of the findings in this article led by researchers from Purdue University. Increasing moisture in western parts of…
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As of 2013, the most extreme storms had increased on average nearly 50 percent across Europe. The 99 percentile daily precipitation event is the 1 percent probability storm or the…
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Increasing extreme storms are a big deal. Our civil infrastructure design is based on our old climate. Meteorologist across the country have been evaluating the historic record to see exactly how much change has…
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Congress Avenue and the Capital in the 1935 flood in Austin. An article from the Associated Press (AP) by Bajak and Borenstein on May 18 tells us that: "Extreme downpours…
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Already, with just a single degree Fahrenheit of warming, the most extreme rain events have increased 40 percent across the Central U.S. including Texas. It’s not just our imaginations; it’s…
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Already, with just a single degree Fahrenheit of warming, the most extreme rain events have increased 40 percent across the Central U.S. including Texas. It’s not just our imaginations; it’s…
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From the abstract: “A devastating societal and economic toll on the central United States, contributing to dozens of fatalities and causing billions of dollars in damage. As a warmer atmosphere can hold…
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From the abstract: “A devastating societal and economic toll on the central United States, contributing to dozens of fatalities and causing billions of dollars in damage. As a warmer atmosphere can hold…
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