Bob Henson
Writer at Freelance
Meteorologist and journalist. I cover wacky #weather, changing #climate & how we live, love, work, get around & dream. Views are my own.
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1 week ago |
yaleclimateconnections.org | Bob Henson
Amazing news: We just got a new report on your donations to support our extreme weather coverage, and we’ve blown past our goal of $10,000. Every donation we receive helps us protect more people, so we’re setting a new goal: Can we make it to $20,000 by tonight at midnight? I’m so proud to write for Eye on the Storm at Yale Climate Connections alongside my longtime colleague Jeff Masters, whose storied career continues in this new era and keeps making a huge impact.
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1 week ago |
yaleclimateconnections.org | Jeff Masters |Bob Henson
With an ever-growing plethora of hurricane computer forecast models out there – including two new ones that became operational just last year – it can be ever more puzzling to figure out which model to believe. But the best approach remains: Don’t take any of them as gospel. Put your trust in the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, forecast.
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2 weeks ago |
yaleclimateconnections.org | Bob Henson
The nation’s deadliest spate of tornadoes in more than three years wasn’t over yet on Monday, May 19, with 100 twisters reported over five days and at least two more days of significant severe weather in store. As multiple upper-level storms traversed a wavy frontal zone, the activity shifted from the Upper Midwest on Thursday, May 15 (31 preliminary tornado reports) toward Missouri into Kentucky on Friday (38), then reloaded across Colorado and Kansas on Sunday (31).
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3 weeks ago |
yaleclimateconnections.org | Bob Henson
One of the most eye-popping late-spring heat waves on record made its way from the Pacific Coast into the center of North America this week. Numerous towns and cities have notched their hottest days and/or warmest nights ever experienced this early in the season, and some have soared to readings unheard of anytime before June. The warm air was drawn north from the fast-heating drylands of northern Mexico and the southwest U.S. by a powerful upper low pushing across the continent.
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1 month ago |
yaleclimateconnections.org | Bob Henson
A landmark policy crafted in April by members of the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization, or IMO, will tax international shippers based on the carbon content of their fuels. The draft policy is due to be finalized in late 2025. The agreement that emerged from the 83rd meeting of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee was undeniably a compromise – critiqued by activists and oil-rich nations alike. Yet it’s also undeniably historic.
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