Source: Climate Signals

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Climate change is driving season creep: summers are growing longer due to climate change, while winters are dramatically shrinking

  2023-12-13 (or before) in Climate Signals

Climate Signals Summary: As climate change advances, spring is arriving much sooner, while winters are becoming shorter and milder.

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Thousands in Michigan evacuate after 2 dams are breached, and the governor warns city could soon be under '9 feet of water'

  2020-05-22 (or before) in Climate Signals

Climate Signals Summary: In the Midwest, climate change is increasing extreme and total precipitation, which is greatly increasing the risk of severe flooding, like the current Michigan flooding.  

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change

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Climate Signals

  2020-05-22 (or before) in Climate Signals

Climate Signals is a nonprofit, nonpartisan project of Climate Nexus that curates cutting-edge attribution science and provides resources in real time explaining how climate change worsens extreme events.

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change

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Oroville Dam Spillway Overflow February 2017

  2020-05-22 (or before) in Climate Signals

A series of weather systems has delivered record-breaking heavy precipitation to California since early January 2017. On top of heavy precipitation, warm weather systems dropped rainfall in mountain regions where snow pack was forced to melt back to higher elevations and the resulting melt water joined the mountain run-off from the passing storms. Climate change contributes to both heavy precipitation as well as warmer temperatures that prematurely melt snow pack. The combination of heavy precipitation and snow-pack melt has driven the state from drought to flood. Natural climate variability in California is extremely ...

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Extreme Rainfall | Drought | Climate Change | California | Collapse

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Western US Heat Wave April 2020

  2020-04-29 (or before) in Climate Signals

Record-breaking triple digit heat has taken hold in the southwestern US. The heat wave is expected to break all time monthly temperature records for April in several locations. Recent years have shown an uptick in the number of extreme, record-breaking heat events in the region. The increase in extreme heat events is a clear signal of climate change. Around 80 percent of monthly hot temperature records in the Southwest from 2001 to 2010 were due to climate change.[1] Four out of five record-hot days globally are now amplified by the trend in global warming.[2]

  Tagged under: Global Warming | Extreme Weather | Climate Change

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