This week on the Shum Show, Climate Central’s Greta Shum looks at Peru’s heavy downpours. Over the past month, Peru has received the equivalent of six years worth of rain, causing damages and deaths. Meanwhile, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice had record lows this year.
See the long-term trend in sea ice on WXshift’s Arctic sea ice climate indicator page.
Columbia, S.C. had two consecutive nights in the 20s last week. While that’s normally not a problem, as the average date of the last freeze there is March 30, this freeze caused major damage to crops there and across the Southeast, coming as it did after an exceptionally warm February that encouraged plants to bloom much earlier than normal. As
MoreAstronomical spring, marked by the vernal equinox, begins at 6:29 a.m. (10: 29 GMT) on Monday, March 20. This is the date when the amount of daylight is equal to the amount of night across all parts of the globe. The term “equinox” comes from the Latin, meaning “equal night.” Spring is getting warmer, on average, as the globe heats up from the
MoreWith warmer temperatures all year long, it feels like spring to us and to plants earlier in the year. In this week's Shum Show, Climate Central's Greta Shum explains why that can be a bad thing for plants. As we celebrate the vernal equinox this year, researchers are studying solutions to this phenological phenomenon! Read more about early springs
MoreThe large winter storm and hard freeze that have followed the very warm February in the Northeast provide a vivid example of a weather one-two punch that may become more common in the future. Spring, as measured by the appearance of the first leaves on trees, is arriving sooner than in the past as the planet continues to warm from greenhouse gases
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