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2 weeks ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Jeff Masters
Colorado State University’s hurricane forecasting team is calling for yet another unusually active season with 17 named storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes.
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1 month ago | 
whowhatwhy.org | Jeff Masters |Bob Henson
Firings and budget cuts could slow emergency disaster response and weaken resilience efforts. One month into the new Trump administration, firings of scientists and freezes to US research funding have caused an unprecedented elimination of scientific expertise from the federal government.
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1 month ago | 
alleghenyfront.org | Kara Holsopple |Jeff Masters
Last month was Earth’s hottest January on record. That might be hard for some of us in North America to believe since we’ve been bundling up against uncommonly frigid temperatures this winter. But the global record is significant for all of us. To learn more, The Allegheny Front’s Kara Holsopple spoke with Jeff Masters, Ph.D., a meteorologist who wrote about it for Yale Climate Connections.
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2 months ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Jeff Masters |Bob Henson
One month into the new Trump administration, firings of scientists and freezes to U.S. research funding have caused an unprecedented elimination of scientific expertise from the federal government. Proposed and ongoing cuts to agencies like the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, could hobble efforts to keep Americans safe during and after disasters.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Jeff Masters |Bob Henson
The same low-pressure system that brought historic snowfall to the U.S. Gulf Coast early this week intensified into an extremely powerful extratropical cyclone in the North Atlantic, designated Storm Éowyn under Europe’s international system for naming such storms. Éowyn barreled into Ireland and the northern United Kingdom on Friday, January 24, bringing heavy wind damage, a destructive storm surge, and widespread power outages.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Bob Henson |Jeff Masters
The weather pattern that’s dominated the United States for most of January jumped into overdrive this week. Nearly all of the 48 contiguous states are unusually cold, though it’s a pale imitation of the colossal, nationwide Arctic intrusions of decades past. In our warming climate, such 20th-century cold outbreaks may become increasingly tougher to match. Yet winter can still pack a dangerous punch, as folks on the Gulf Coast and in California are finding in two very different ways.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Jeff Masters
El número de fallecidos por los catastróficos incendios forestales en Los Ángeles ha aumentado a 24 y se espera que siga incrementándose. Las 16 muertes directas causadas por el incendio Eaton lo convierten en el quinto incendio forestal más mortal de California, mientras que el incendio Palisades, con ocho fallecidos, ocupa el puesto 14 entre los más mortales del estado.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Jeff Masters
The death toll from Los Angeles’ catastrophic wildfires has risen to 24 and is expected to increase further. The 16 direct fatalities from the Eaton Fire alone make it California’s fifth-deadliest wildfire, while the Palisades Fire, with eight deaths, ranks as the state’s 14th-deadliest fire. However, the eventual death toll from the disaster is likely to be far, far, higher, once the health effects from the toxic smoke from the fires are fully realized.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Jeff Masters |Bob Henson
In 2024, the planet broke the record set in 2023 for the hottest year on record, NOAA, NASA, the European Copernicus Climate Change Service, Berkeley Earth, and the UKMET Office reported on January 10. There were 14 straight months of record-breaking global temperatures from June 2023 through July 2024, and the July global temperature value was likely the hottest of any month since 1850.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Jeff Masters |Bob Henson
The New Year has rung in with one of the most horrific wildfire events in world history: an urban firestorm in the Los Angeles metro area that has killed at least five people and reduced thousands of homes to smoking rubble. Two major fires in excess of 10,000 acres – the Palisades fire in the western suburbs of Los Angeles, and the Eaton fire in the northern suburbs – were intensified by severe drought and driven by winds gusting up to 100 mph (161 km/hr) from a severe Santa Ana wind event.
