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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Gloninger |Ken Mahan
“This past season was the best, with a few natural snowfalls mixed with cold temperatures to produce artificial snow,” said Brenner, head of the Eastern Massachusetts Cross-Country Skiing’s youth program. “The winters have been tough over the last five years. The previous few winters saw dismal conditions with multiple cancellations and closures from warming temperatures and rain events. This past season was the best it’s been in a while.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Marianne Mizera |Chris Gloninger
It was a great start to the New Year. Francis Tarasiewicz had landed his dream job as a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Norton, Mass., covering a good portion of New England – where he grew up. The year 2025 looked promising for the young meteorologist. Then, on Thursday, an email arrived and up ended his life.
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Gloninger |Amanda Gokee
Monday’s magnitude 3.8 earthquake was felt from Downeast Maine to New York City and west to the Hudson Valley for a few short seconds. More than 24 hours later, no aftershocks were detected by seismographs or people. Those living in more earthquake-prone areas, such as California, have come to expect aftershocks as matter-of-fact after major earthquakes strike. But could the quake trigger aftershocks more than a day after Monday’s earthquake about 6 miles off the coast of southern Maine?
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Gloninger
Winters are getting warmer across New England, that we know. So when we do get a frigid blast of subfreezing weather like we’re facing this week, it is a bit of a shock to the system. Not surprising since humans adapt to a changing environment and this current cold snap we’re in, although not that dramatic when comparing it against past records, still makes it feel more extreme and more noticeable because we haven’t suffered through it in some time.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Chris Gloninger
Chris Gloninger is a meteorologist and climate communicator with 18 years of broadcast experience, AMS dual certifications, and a master’s in Emergency Management, specializing in making complex climate topics accessible. He first published this essay on his newsletter, Weathering Climate Change. As 2024 comes to a close, it’s clear something extraordinary—and unsettling—has been happening in Des Moines. With just five days to go, the city is tied for the second warmest year on record.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
iowacapitaldispatch.com | Chris Gloninger
by Chris Gloninger, Iowa Capital Dispatch December 24, 2024 A white Christmas is defined as 1 inch of snow on the ground at 7 a.m. Christmas morning. The last white Christmas in Des Moines was two years ago. This year will not be a white Christmas, and it won’t be across much of the United States. Chances for a white Christmas – by 30-year average Between 1993 and 2023, there were 14 “white Christmases” — the exact same number observed in the previous 30-year period from 1963 to 1993.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
chrisgloninger.substack.com | Julie Gammack |Chris Gloninger |Nicole Baart |Rekha Basu
Weathering Climate Change is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. As we gather with friends and family this Thanksgiving, I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to each of you - both free and paid subscribers. Your interest in climate change, your willingness to stay informed, and your engagement with the work I share means more than I can say.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Gloninger
“It’s beyond bad right now. The reservoirs are down. We have stream flows that are down,” said Pete Bouchard, chief meteorologist for NBC Boston. “We are deep into this drought. …I do not know of a time where I can remember that we have had a drought going this deep into the autumn or this close to winter.” How this drought compares to other recent droughts New England is experiencing a dearth of rainfall that's depleting groundwater levels. See how it compares to droughts in 2022 and 2016.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Gloninger
More than half of Massachusetts is now experiencing severe drought conditions, according to the latest US Drought Monitor report. The western boundary has shifted from the Worcester Hills all the way to the Berkshires. “It has been a couple of decades since we have seen something like this,” according to Brian Fuchs, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Gloninger
The Atlantic hurricane season officially wraps up Nov. 30, but the ocean’s warm waters are not done churning out tropical systems just yet. The National Hurricane Center is closely monitoring a disturbance in the Caribbean that is expected to develop into Tropical Storm Sara on Thursday just south of Jamaica. “A broad area of low pressure over the central Caribbean Sea continues to produce a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms,” forecasters with the Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
