Atmospheric Scientist talking about weather, climate, and the environment.
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Kait Parker retweeted
The first 2026 Atlantic hurricane season outlook was just issued by @philklotzbach and the team @CSUAtmosSci. Overall activity could be the lowest since 2015 if a supercharged El Niño emerges. April bookends are wide, however. My deep dive here: michaelrlowry.substack.com/p…
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@MichaelRLowry, a hurricane expert who recently wrote a guest essay for @nytopinion on forecasting cuts, is currently live on Reddit to answer all your disaster-related questions. Submit your questions here: nyti.ms/4kNvVB2
Kait Parker retweeted
Beautiful tribute from @NOAA_HurrHunter who earlier this evening honored longtime radar scientist and researcher Peter Dodge who passed away in March 2023.
His ashes were dropped in the eye of Category 5 Milton tonight –
PETER DODGE HX SCI (1950-2023) 387TH PENNY
Kait Parker retweeted
Climate Change Is Making Us Sick, Literally
#news #environment #climatechange #pollution
@WeatherKait reports for @CC_Yale
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Kait Parker retweeted
Great to have Kait Parker writing for Yale Climate Connections! Her first post discusses drought, which is #1 on my list of climate change impacts I’m most concerned about, and one that gets far too little attention. yaleclimateconnections.org/2…
@WeatherKait
Kait Parker retweeted
The Gulf of Mexico this week is the hottest it's been at any point in any year on record by a wide margin. Weekly averaged Gulf sea surface temperatures have never broken 87°F but this week topped 88°F, an astonishing 1.4°C (2.6°F) above the 1991-2020 average.
Kait Parker retweeted
#Antarctic sea ice remains on its own this year compared to any other July in our satellite record. Keep in mind when looking at this graph that the y-axis interval is 1,000,000 km². This is a massive deviation from the previous record for the date.
More: zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-i…
ALT Line graph time series of 2023's daily Antarctic sea-ice area compared to each year from 1979 to 2022. Lines are colored from purple in 1979 to white in 2022. 2023 is shown in red. There are no statistically significant long-term trends visible in this graph for the month of June to August. Data are smoothed using a 5-day running mean from the Sea Ice Index v3.
Kait Parker retweeted
July is often the calm before the proverbial storm heading into August, September, and October -- historically July sees fewer U.S. and Florida impacts from tropical storms and hurricanes than June and fewer "homegrown" systems (80% of total formations in June vs. ~50% in July).
Kait Parker retweeted
Development odds now up to 70% with Invest 91L in the northeastern Gulf. Air Force Hurricane Hunters currently en route to investigate whether we have Tropical Depression #2 or Tropical Storm Arlene. Regardless, heavy rain potential for the Florida peninsula today and tomorrow.
Kait Parker retweeted
Hurricane Season starts today, which means the daily tropical newsletter returns. Today, I discuss the just-released seasonal hurricane forecast from @ColoradoStateU @philklotzbach and Invest 91L swirling in the northeastern Gulf. michaelrlowry.substack.com/p…
Kait Parker retweeted
Is climate change making tornadoes more dangerous? It's complicated, but @WeatherKait breaks down what we know and don't yet know: bit.ly/40JNOXb
Kait Parker retweeted
Phenomenal and persistent warmth across most of the eastern U.S. so far in 2023, including in South Florida (map via @SERCC)
Including March 13, the average temperature in #Miami so far this year is a record-breaking 74.7°F; the old record was 73.5° and the average is 70.2°.
The average *high* temperature of 82.6°F is completely smashing records and is 3 standard deviations above the mean!! [1/3]
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With the east basted in warmth, my mind is on hurricane season and the great messaging conundrum. What if the past wasn't a hindrance to the future? My latest via @CC_Yale yaleclimateconnections.org/2…
Kait Parker retweeted
Does @airfrance not want wheelchair users on their flights? Obviously! We’re a hassle. But this is my most kafkaesque experience yet:
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My deep dive today into extensive new data that reveal just how high the storm surge reached during Hurricane #Ian and what areas were hardest hit. michaelrlowry.substack.com/p…
Kait Parker retweeted
The decision to evacuate or stay isn't easy or straightforward, but three factors in particular get people moving. My latest @CC_Yale on the deeply personal but increasingly complex and challenging question.
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Kait Parker retweeted
“human-induced climate change increased the extreme 3-hourly storm rainfall rates and extreme 3-day accumulated rainfall amounts during the 2020 hurricane season for observed storms that are at least tropical storm strength by 10 and 5%, respectively.” Warmer oceans = more rain.
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Kait Parker retweeted
Hurricane #Ian makes landfall with 150 mph winds at Cayo Costa, Florida, the exact spot Category 4 Charley made landfall in 2004, also with 150 mph. About where the comparisons end. Ian with an enormous footprint of water that's only just begun.
Kait Parker retweeted
With 155 mph winds, Hurricane #Ian teetering on becoming only the fifth Category 5 hurricane to strike the mainland U.S. on record (Cat 5 starts at 157 mph). Whether it does or doesn't is of no consequence or comfort for communities in the path. Catastrophic impacts regardless.
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I'm not sure how many truly grasp what just happened tonight with Hurricane #Ian. It went through a full eyewall replacement cycle, hardly blinked, grew by 50% (as measured by its RMW), and delivered the 3rd highest storm surge since 1913 to Key West in the process. Just wow.