Amy Graff
Weather Data Reporter at The New York Times
Leads news coverage at SFGATE. I report on everything, but weather and wildfires are my obsession. Send news tips to [email protected].
Articles
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1 week ago |
miamiherald.com | Amy Graff
For people on the West Coast, atmospheric rivers, a weather phenomenon that can bring heavy rain or snow from San Diego to Vancouver, are as common a feature of winter as Nor’easters are in Boston. Like those East Coast storms, “atmospheric river” can feel like a buzzword -- more attention grabbing than just “heavy rain,” even if that is how most people walking down the streets of San Francisco will experience it.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Amy Graff
The Mississippi River crested in New Orleans this week, capping an anxious period for the engineers and residents who live alongside it. At the start of April a deadly torrent of rains caused flooding across the Midwest, as days of severe storms ravaged much of the central part of the United States. A month later, the Mississippi River in New Orleans was finally cresting this week, as much of the water from those storms is ending its long journey south.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Amy Graff
Thunderstorms are expected across parts of the central United States on Thursday, with large hail, damaging winds, flash floods and a couple of tornadoes all expected to be in the mix. Forecasters with the National Weather Service said these storms were typical for late spring and not nearly as severe as those that caused historic flooding at the beginning of the month, but they also warned that the storms could be unpredictable.
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Amy Graff
Share Readings from several popular weather apps had people across Chicago spending much of Wednesday wondering whether their air was safe to breathe — until the dangerously unhealthy levels were revealed to be a glitch.Early in the morning, Google’s air quality map showed that Chicago had the worst air in the country. Apple’s weather app, too, showed that the Air Quality Index had climbed into the 400s, a reading so hazardous that people are encouraged to stay indoors.
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4 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Amy Graff
Even a few seconds' notice gives people time to prepare before the shaking. Millions of people across Southern California learned about a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that hit San Diego County on Monday not from their windows rattling or their picture frames clattering, but from a noisy alert on their mobile phones seconds before the shaking started. The urgent messages - advising people to "drop, cover, hold on.
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I'm no longer posting here. I'm moving over to Bluesky (@amyjeangraff.bsky.social), but before I log off, I want to share that I joined the Weather Data team @nytimes as a reporter. Last week, I helped with Thursday's earthquake coverage. https://t.co/bBqauf5OAG
RT @NWSBayArea: 🌧️We typically receive around 60% of our annual precipitation from December through February https://t.co/ttq7BGtDzr
RT @NHC_Atlantic: The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended on Saturday (Nov. 30)! Here are a preliminary summary and track map o…