Helloooo, Fall! Meteorologist Sean Sublette looks ahead to the beginning of a new season, and some wet weather in the Southwest in this week’s weather and climate forecast, Shift Ahead.
For the second time in as many weeks, the Southwest is facing a major threat of flash flooding as more rain comes up from the tropics. Tropical Depression 16-E is set to unleash 2-4 inches of rain across the region with up 5 inches possible in the mountains of Arizona. The National Weather Service has issued flash flood watches across parts of
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A plume of moisture from the tropics is bringing potent and deadly rains to California and the Southwest. On Monday evening, flash flooding killed eight in southern Utah. On Tuesday morning, Angelenos and other residents of Southern California awakened to what’s shaping up to be one the wettest September days on record.
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Record-breaking rain across Texas and Oklahoma this week caused widespread flooding, the likes of which the region has rarely, if ever, seen. For seven locations there, May 2015 has seen the most rain of any month ever recorded, with five days to go and the rain still coming. While rainfall in the region is consistent with the emerging El Niño, the
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Extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves and torrential rainfalls are the most powerful and obvious reminders that the climate is changing. These disasters were happening long before humans started pumping heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but global warming has tipped the odds in their favor. A devastating heat wave
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