Arctic loses more than a billion tons of water each day: Ice melting in the Arctic since 1971 led to an increase in sea level of 2.3 centimetres.
New research showed that the Arctic loses 14,000 tons of water (ice loss) each second, 840,000 tons every minute, 50,400,000 per hour or more than a billion tons a day as melting of the ice in the areas around the North Pole tripled, news agency NTB reported Sunday.
The research was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters and was conducted by scientists from Chile, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and Norway.
"We do not have to wait until the end of the century to see the problems associated with sea level rise. The problems are here now," said Jason Box, professor of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).
2018 set to be 4th hottest on record as November is officially the 5th hottest on record according to NOAA: 2019 could be hottest ever Met Office
NOAA's monthly global weather report has been released this week with the term "mini-ice-age" conspicuous by its lack of mention.
According to NOAA, November 2018 was fifth hottest on record for the globe continuing their stance on global warming
NASA, on the other hand, are claiming temperatures for the whole globe could be about to plummet as our sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age.
Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018 and Earth’s upper atmosphere is responding, says Dr Phillips, editor of spaceweather.com.
Meanwhile this week, the British Met Office has gone one further claiming next year, 2019 could be the warmest on record.
Warmer or cooler? US: Record December Snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic: November 2018 was cooler, wetter for U.S. as deadly wildfires torched California
Monster dust storms; torrential rains; worst drought in living memory; deadly wildfires; bats falling dead from trees: Summer in Aus
Spare a thought for the Aussies just a week after a monster dust storm measuring 500 kilometres (310 miles) blanketed Australia's southeast after suffering one of the worst droughts in living memory, one month's rain fell yesterday in a couple of hours that drenched Sydney causing severe flooding but missed the drought area, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said it was the region's wettest November day since 1984.
"The intensity of yesterdays rainfall was phenomenal - 91mm fell in 90 minutes," forecaster Rob Taggart told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The storm centred on coastal parts of New South Wales (NSW) but was reported to have missed many inland regions affected by drought.
A future of record cold or record warm? Conflicting headlines from NASA NOAA The Met Office President Trump all disagree
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As commuters in Chicago and across the Midwest faced inches of heavy, wet snow as they returned to work on Monday after the long U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with the storm knocking out power to nearly a quarter of a million people as the early winter storm devastated the area, we are once again confronted with conflicting reports from the so-called experts.
Yesterday the UK’s most comprehensive picture yet of how the climate could change over the next century was launched by the Environment Secretary Michael Gove.
Another tipping point breached: Salmon have disappeared in Scotland: Not a single salmon caught during the entire season.
It used to be the best salmon fishing in the world
But now Global warming is being blamed for Scotland's worst salmon season in living memory.
Some beats on famous rivers like the Spey and the Nith recorded not a single salmon caught during the entire season.
Just two salmon were caught on the River Fyne in Argyll this year, where once more than 700 were caught each season.
The number of fish caught by anglers has been so low that some estates have stopped selling permits for once-popular beats because there is no fish to catch.
Tourism has been hit, sales of salmon tackle have slumped and ghillies have lost their jobs.
Hundreds of parasite creatures which were the inspiration for the film 'Alien' wash up off the Co Kerry coast days after UFO sightings
Hundreds of parasite creatures which were the inspiration for the film 'Alien' have washed up off the Co Kerry coast.
A string of the eerie-looking parasites called Phronima - which bear an uncanny resemblance to the alien queen in the iconic movies - have been found on Ventry Beach outside Dingle.
The creatures - which eat barrel jellyfish from the inside out and ride around in their corpse - are an extremely rare find in Ireland.
The director of Dingle Oceanworld Kevin Flannery said: "Then the female lays her eggs inside in the poor barrel jellyfish."
He quipped that it is very timely find as pilots spotted strange objects flying close to their planes last Friday
Government team claim climate change will cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars after Trump Tweet over brutal cold
Climate change will cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century, damaging everything from human health to infrastructure and agricultural production, according to a government report issued on Friday.
Clashing with Trump, U.S. government report says climate change will batter economy: New report warns of unprecedented growing impact on US life.
Trump administration releases its own apocalyptic report on climate change which estimates that 10 PER CENT of GDP will be lost to man-made global warming by 2100 and bring catastrophic consequences to the US which comes just days after the president Tweeted; Brutal and extended cold blast, (for the nations Thanksgiving holiday) could shatter ALL RECORDS-whatever happened to global warming.
Kilometers beneath the ice of Antarctica a radioactive heat source is slowly melting it from underneath: Hot material slowly melting the ice
Kilometers beneath the ice of Antarctica, a radioactive heat source is slowly melting it from underneath, researchers believe.
Researchers flew planes over the ice using radar to "see" three kilometers beneath the ice, where the hot material seems to be slowly melting the ice.
The researchers believe the heat source is radioactive rocks and hot water from inside Earth's crust. While Antarctica isn't going to melt away overnight, it could have important knock-on effects when combined with climate change, according to new measurements by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
Researcher Tom Jordan believes the process of melting observed has likely been going on for thousands or maybe even millions of years but isn't directly contributing to "ice sheet change".
Global warming-Mini ice rage goes on! Feds to release major climate report during coldest Thanksgiving on record in Parts of the U.S.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bitterly Cold Black Friday Will Be Among the Coldest on Record in Parts of the Northeast.
An arctic air mass will engulf the Northeast in time for Thanksgiving weekend.
Lows will be 10 to 20 degrees below average Black Friday.
Another blast of cold air will bring one of the coldest Thanksgivings on record for some Northeast cities.
According to The Weather Channel, a strong area of high pressure originating from the Arctic Circle is now sweeping into the Northeast and will send temperatures plummeting toward levels you might expect on New Year's Day, not Thanksgiving Day.
Low temperatures Thanksgiving morning and Black Friday will be 15 to 30 degrees below average for late November.
A dust storm measuring 500 kilometres (310 miles) is blanketing Australia's southeast after suffering one of the worst droughts in memory
A dust storm measuring 500 kilometres (310 miles) in length is sweeping across Australia's southeast, blanketing towns in a red haze and raising health concerns.
Satellite images show the wall of dust roughly the same distance from London to Paris as it moves across New South Wales towards the coast.
Authorities issued a public health alert for Sydney on Thursday, rating the air particle quality as very poor and warning children, the elderly and those with respiratory problems to stay inside.
Senior forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology Dean Narramore told CNN affiliate 9 News the dust plume was moving quickly east.
Global warming or mini-ice-age? Coldest Thanksgiving in 100 years: Arctic blast in Europe: October 2018 the 2nd hottest since records began.
It's time for the global warmers and mini-ice-agers to begin the war of words again...
Thanksgiving to usher in a blast of Arctic air over U.S. Northeast.
It’s time to pull out the heavy winter coat for your post-dinner stroll this Thursday, say NOAA meteorologists.
Thanksgiving Day temperatures will reach only the teens and 20s over much of the Northeast, possibly setting cold records stretching back 100 years.
And it's not just the U.S. and Canada suffering the cold, most of Europe and the British Isles and Ireland are shivering from a blast of Arctic air from "The Beast Of The East."
"We are facing a +3-4°C world and will condemn us to an uninhabitable planet" Oakland is 3rd California city to declare a Climate Emergency
Last night, the city of Oakland followed Berkeley and Richmond, becoming the third California city to declare a Climate Emergency, voting unanimously to pass a "Resolution Endorsing the Declaration of a Climate Emergency and Requesting Regional Collaboration on an Immediate Just Transition and Emergency Mobilization Effort to Restore a Safe Climate."
Oakland's vote marks growing regional momentum and a movement of cities to treat global warming as the emergency it is.
Oakland joins Berkeley and Richmond in launching an emergency-speed Climate Mobilization and Just Transition effort.
This means that the City will...
Another giant iceberg has broken free from Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica about five times the size of Manhattan
An iceberg about five times the size of Manhattan has broken off the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica over the past 24 hours, an ominous sign of the continued retreat of this fast-flowing mass of ice.
Like many other marine terminating glaciers in Antarctica, this glacier is retreating over time and increasing the movement of ice into the sea.
The iceberg had first appeared as a rift across Pine Island Glacier in September, before leading to the calving of about 300 square kilometres, or 116 square miles, of ice.
The largest individual iceberg measures about 226 square kilometres in area, or 87 square miles. While this iceberg itself is not record-breaking - it ranks as the sixth-largest iceberg to break off the Pine Island Glacier since 2001 - it illustrates the continued instability of marine-terminating glaciers in parts of the icebound continent.
August 2018 was 5th hottest on record for the globe and 403rd consecutive month with global temperatures above average
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After flaming July 2018 was confirmed as the 403rd consecutive month with global temperatures above average and the 4th hottest on record August has weighed in as the 5th hottest August on record for the globe in NOAA recent monthly report.
As expected NOAA claimed Polar sea ice coverage remains at near-record lows.
August was another hot one for the record books.
Climate changed! Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic collapsing at a fantastic 82 feet a day in 2015 and its getting worse
In the last few years, the Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic has dramatically accelerated, sliding as much as 82 feet a day in 2015, according to a new multi-national, multi-institute study led by CIRES Fellow Mike Willis, an assistant professor of Geology at CU Boulder.
That dwarfs the ice's previous average speed of about 2 inches per day and has challenged scientists' assumptions about the stability of the cold ice caps dotting Earth's high latitudes.
As the Arctic thaws NASA releases video of bubbling lakes releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at unprecedented rates
NASA has released videos of bubbling lakes in the remote Arctic tundra, where warming continues to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at unprecedented rates.
The international research team, funded by NASA as part of their Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), recently published their results in Nature Communications.
What they found are bubbling lakes as greenhouse gases are released from the previously frozen ground, leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions and a warming positive feedback.
The Arctic is one of the largest natural reservoirs of organic carbon, trapped within the frozen soils.
If a tree dies, say in the Amazon rainforest, it is quickly eaten (rot) away by bacteria, which respire the same as humans.
Israel is the latest of a growing number of countries struggling with drought as experts claim it is the longest in more than a hundred years
Water Authority chief Giora Shaham says Israel suffering longest drought in a century and that water consumption will have to be limited if another dry year follows.
Israel has been experiencing the most consecutive drought years in more than a century, Israel Water Authority director Giora Shaham said on Sunday.
He noted that two islands have already arisen in Lake Kinneret due to the dropping water levels, and one of them is expected to merge with the surrounding land.
Burn Baby Burn-July was 403rd consecutive month with global temperatures above average and the 4th hottest on record: NOAA
It may come as a surprise for many people living in the Northern Hemisphere this summer but July 2018 was only the 4th warmest on record, according to NOAA's monthly report.
Heatwaves in July were reported from Canada, U.S. UK, Ireland, Europe, Russia, Japan and the Korean peninsula as the Northern Hemisphere baked in what appeared to be endless sunshine, in my part of the world Holland we didn't have a meaningful drop of rain during July as most days climbed well above 30 deg C, well into the 90's deg F.
Heat records around the world to tumbled daily as climate change became all so real.
Meteorologist described loss of ice as "scary": The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up for the first time ever
The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer.
This phenomenon - which has never been recorded before - has occurred twice this year due to warm winds and a climate-change-driven heatwave in the northern hemisphere.
One meteorologist described the loss of ice as "scary".
Others said it could force scientists to revise their theories about which part of the Arctic will withstand warming the longest.
The entire state of New South Wales the breadbasket of Australia is now impacted by drought killing crops and diminishing livestock feed
The entire state of NSW is now impacted by drought, official figures show.
A drier-than-expected June and July have left many farmers with failing crops, a short supply of water and diminishing livestock feed.
According to the NSW Department of Primary Industries, 61% of NSW is either in drought or intense drought, while nearly 39% is drought affected.
"This is tough," the NSW primary industries minister, Niall Blair, said in a statement on Wednesday. 'There isn't a person in the state that isn't hoping to see some rain for our farmers and regional communities."
HSBC one of the world's largest banks tipping point warning! Earth spent its entire resource budget for the year by August 1
HSBC one of the world's largest banks says the planet is running out of resources and warns that neither governments nor companies are prepared for climate change.
The world spent its entire natural resource budget for the year by August 1, a group of analysts at HSBC said in a note that cited research from the Global Footprint Network (GFN).
That means that the world's citizens used up all the planet's resources for the year in just seven months, according to GFN's analysis.
"In our opinion, these findings and events show that many businesses and governments are not adequately prepared for climate impacts, nor are they using natural resources efficiently," the HSBC analysts said in the note.
Burn-baby-burn: It's too late to put out the fire! Scientists claim a domino effect around the world will result in a 'hothouse Earth' state
It's like the script of a Hollywood Si-Fi film and Bible prophecy and as many of us have seen in the Northern Hemisphere this summer our biggest nightmare.
A new study by the Stockholm Resilience Centre is claiming places on Earth will become uninhabitable after a series of events would cause a tipping point producing a domino effect around the world resulting in a 'hothouse Earth' state. Report Here
But as the most of the Northern Hemisphere is struggling from a record-breaking heat this summer, has the tipping point been breached already?
A surface sea sample the warmest it has ever been since records began in 1916 found off the iconic Scripps Pier in La Jolla, California.
Since World War I, scientists have been recording ocean temperatures at the iconic Scripps Pier in La Jolla, California.
Every single day, someone walks to the end of the pier and takes a seawater sample at the surface and bottom of the ocean and measures its temperature and salt concentration ("salinity").
Earlier this week on August 1, the surface sample was the warmest it has been since the record began in 1916.
Researchers measured a sea surface temperature of 78.6 °F, which was 0.2 °F greater than the previous record from an unusual warming event in July 1931.
These temperatures are on par with what is observed off the coast of Miami, Florida during winter months, which are known to be the warmest waters around the continental United States.
Searing heat shrinks Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain glacier by 13 feet of snow in just one month losing it's crown of Sweden's highest peak
A glacier on the southern tip of Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain has melted so much that the height of the peak has shrunk, and it's no longer the country's tallest, scientists said this week.
The announcement came Wednesday in a press release declaring the mountain's northern tip as the nation's new tallest peak.
From July 2 to 31, the southern tip lost 13 feet of snow to melting as much of Scandinavia baked in searing heat.
"This is happening very fast," Stockholm University geography professor Gunhild Rosqvist said in a statement.
"The result of this hot summer will be a record loss in snow and ice in the mountains."
"The humidity is just horrid," Five year drought and extremely warm ocean temperatures behind extraordinarily muggy Southern California.
This summer has been a muggy one, and it feels like it's been a trend the past several summers here in San Diego.
"The humidity is just horrid," says Delia Pollara who is visiting from Riverside with her grandkids, enjoying the warm waters off our coast.
The warm ocean waters are the main reason it has been feeling extraordinarily muggy in Southern California.
Alex Tardy, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, says the water is "warm, and it's unusually warm, even for July."
A strange species of jellyfish not seen for a hundred years is found in Sweden as exotic species are spotted on both sides of the Atlantic
A small and stinging species of jellyfish has been found on Sweden's West coast, the Swedish Television SVT reported on Tuesday.
The species is known as the clinging jellyfish, and it was last seen in Sweden 88 years ago.
"It originates from the Pacific Ocean and was last seen in Sweden in 1930.
It has also been found in Norway and Denmark, but never before has it managed to breed in Sweden," marine biologist Bjorn Kallstrom told SVT.
An unprecedented two month drought the hottest temperatures on record the UK now has the wettest day ever and it's going to get worse
After an unprecedented two month drought with the hottest temperatures on record, parts of the UK has now witnessed it's wettest day ever and today is set to be even worse as the Met Office has warned that this will only get worse today, with gale-force winds and heavy rain.
Parts of the UK experienced their "wettest ever day," with Aldergrove in Northern Ireland hit by 98.8mm - which is more than a month's worth of rainfall.
The UK is braced for more than 36 hours of torrential downpour, according to the Met Office which has issued several weather warnings over rainfall and gale-force winds.
From sharks to deadly stingrays and monster-sized jellyfish strange creatures showing up on both sides of the Atlantic during heatwave
Stingrays spotted in British waters during the recent summer heatwave.
As 2018 continues to bake in the Northern Hemisphere the Atlantic ocean is beginning to show increased stress as strange and unusual creatures are turning up where they don't belong.
Stingrays have been spotted in shallow water close to a number of beaches in the Channel Island of Jersey in the UK.
According to The Daily Mail, the increased numbers of the deadly creatures are believed to be linked to the prolonged spell of warm and settled weather, which has encouraged stingrays to move out of deeper water.
Meanwhile, the BBC reported yesterday that swimmers were warned over a 9ft blue shark spotted close to the beach in St Ives, Cornwall.
Iceberg six kilometres wide breaking up on Greenland coast just weeks after Glacier loses eight billion tons of ice half the size of Manhattan
An iceberg six kilometres wide and drifting off Greenland has triggered fears of flooding as it breaks up, leading authorities to evacuate a high-risk zone.
The authorities have urged residents of the Innaarsuit island settlement with houses on a promontory to move away from the shore over fears that the 100-metre high iceberg, which was spotted on Thursday, could swamp the area.
"We fear the iceberg could calve and send a flood towards the village," Lina Davidsen, a security chief at the Greenland police, told Danish news agency Ritzau on Friday.
Climate change caught on film: Greenland's Helheim Glacier loses eight billion tons of ice half the size of New York's Manhattan Island
Photo credit carbonbrief.org
All was quiet on June 22 as Canadian husband-and-wife scientists David and Denise Holland settled in for the night off Greenland's Helheim Glacier.
The glacier researchers from New York University had spent four nights on the south side of Helheim but had just set up camp on the north side.
Denise had positioned her video camera - just in case - when she heard a noise that seemed to carry on "for an extended period of time."
That noise was a major breakup of the glacier that lasted more than 30 minutes.
Massive pieces of ice half a kilometre high broke off.
70 people have died in Quebec due to heat as the planet recovers from record smashing global heatwave which shocked the experts
Global heatwave shown on University of Maine Map
Health authorities say up to 70 people may have died in Quebec as a result of heat-related complications since the beginning of an early July heat wave that saw temperatures climb to more than 40 C with the humidex.
Temperatures have since cooled off across the province and a spokesperson with Quebec's Public Health Department says Monday it would no longer be giving updates on heat-related deaths because "the situation is back to normal."
Most of the deaths occurred in Montreal, with 34 cases reported to authorities.
As 2018 is set to be the hottest year ever Europe is beginning to parch from the lack of water after 50 days without rainfall
Dead grass and trees shedding leaves as a rainless summer hits Noord Holland.
As June is expected to be named the hottest June ever on this planet and July going the same way and 2018 set to be the hottest year ever Europe is beginning to parch from the lack of water
After what seems like weeks without rainfall this is what grass looks like in North Holland after the incredible heatwave which has gripped the UK and Western and Northern Europe recently.
Reservoirs are running dry after a 50-day dry spell while global temperatures rocket.
Drought emergency expanding through the breadbasket of America as the entire state of Kansas is under some stage of drought
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Kansas has expanded the number of counties classified as having a drought emergency so that nearly half are covered.
Gov. Jeff Colyer issued an executive order Friday listing 50 of the state's 105 counties as having a drought emergency.
His new order replaces one in March listing 28 counties as having an emergency.
That status allows counties to use water from some state fishing lakes and federal reservoirs.
The entire state is under some stage of drought.
Antarctica lost 219 billion tonnes of ice since 2012 up from the 76 billion recorded in previous years global sea levels could be 3 feet higher by 2070
The Antarctic ice sheet is melting faster than ever - with global sea levels rising more than a half-millimetre every year since 2012, according to scientists.
Antarctica has lost 219 billion tonnes of ice since 2012, up from the 76 billion that was recorded in previous years.
Researchers fear that if the thaw continues to increase at this rate, low-lying communities and coastal cities from New York to Shanghai could be under water by 2100.
"The sharp increase ... is a big surprise," Professor Andrew Shepherd, of the University of Leeds in England, told Reuters.
Working among a team of 80 scientists from 14 different countries, Shepherd helped compile data for a groundbreaking ...
As the world warms up deadly lightning storms are increasing by 12% every degree Celsius of warming killing thousands around the globe
Most lightning deaths usually occur during the warm months of March to July.
India has seen a similar surge in lightning deaths with more than 300 deaths in May so far.
Almost 100% of Arizona is in severe drought after a rainfall deficit dating back to October which is up 10% in the last week
Photo paradiseintheworld.com
The new drought stats are in and they don't look good for the Grand Canyon State.
As of May 24th, 97% of Arizona is in severe drought.
Extreme drought now covers 73% of the state, which is up 10% in the last week.
16% of Arizona is classified under exceptional drought, which is the worst drought category.
The exceptional drought has increased 6% in the last week, covering an area stretching from far northeast Maricopa County to the Four Corners.
The increase comes as no surprise, considering how dry the state was this Winter and Spring. According to 4WARN Meteorologist Jeff Beamish, Tucson's rainfall deficit dating back to October 1st has increased to 2.83".
Heatwave kills 65 people in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi as temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) during Ramadan
People escape the heat/ Reuters
A heatwave has killed 65 people in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi over the past three days, a social welfare organization said on Tuesday, amid fears the death toll could climb as the high temperatures persist.
The heatwave has coincided with power outages and the holy month of Ramadan when most Muslims do not eat or drink during daylight hours.
Temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) on Monday, local media reported. Faisal Edhi, who runs the Edhi Foundation that operates morgues and an ambulance service in Pakistan's biggest city, said the deaths occurred mostly in the poor areas of Karachi.
Heatwave hits Sweden as temps to climb above 30 deg C while near freezing temperatures hit South Australia 2018 continues to surprise
Some parts of Sweden could have temperatures above 30C (86+ deg F) this week.
The heatwave from Finland is expected to stick around until Wednesday, according to national weather agency SMHI, with unusually high May temperatures in almost the whole of Sweden.
"We'll have temperatures far above normal in all of the country if you compare to statistics between 1961 and 1990," said SMHI meteorologist Linus Dock.
Only in the far north of the Lapland mountains is the mercury expected to stay at normal levels.
The world's hottest April day ever is followed with the Arctic recording its warmest period on record for the time of year; sea ice near record low
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In four of the past five winters, the North Pole has witnessed dramatic temperatures spikes, which previously were rare.
Now, in the lead up to summer, the temperature has again shot up to unusually high levels at the tip of the planet.
Scientists say this warming could hasten the melt of Arctic sea ice, which is already near record low levels.
In just the past few days, the temperature at the North Pole has soared to the melting point of 32 degrees, which is about 30-35 degrees (17-19 Celsius) above normal.
Much of the entire Arctic north of 80 degrees latitude is abnormally warm.
The temperature averaged over the whole region appears to be the warmest on record for the time of year, dating back to at least 1958.
The world's hottest April day ever at 122.4F (50.2C) belongs to Pakistan but the rest of the globe is also witnessing very strange weather
Last week Pakistan experienced the world's hottest April day on record, with temperatures peaking at 122.4F (50.2C), according to experts.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department confirmed the extreme temperature was recorded in the city of Nawabshah on Monday, April 30, potentially making it the hottest April temperature ever witnessed on Earth.
Today England experienced it's warmest May day ever when the mercury hit 84F (29C) on it's May Bank Holiday with Holland to have it's hottest May day tomorrow with temperatures around 30C, 86F
And yesterday almost 200 feral horses died in a heatwave around a dried up pond in Navajo land in northern Arizona, according to tribal leaders, the victims of overpopulation and dwindling water resources.
Sick of the cold? Is March really the 5th warmest on record? And snow in Spain USA Canada UK Asia & Africa where will April be on the list?
On the 21st of March, a 'Four'easter' slammed into the northeast of the US shattering snow records and leaving thousands without power and affecting millions for the fourth time that month.
At the beginning of March 200 million were battered by 2 deadly storms on both sides of Atlantic.
A bomb cyclone smashed the US northeast while storm Emma slammed northern Europe, a weather bomb smashed 70 million Americans along the northeast while more than 100 million people in Ireland, the UK and parts of Europe were battered by Storm Emma.
Climate change high tides frequent storms and sea-level rise worrying for Miami home owners as house prices drop due to their vulnerability
Miami homeowners are increasingly worried their real estate values could drop because of sea-level rise.
Research published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that single-family homes in Miami-Dade County were increasing in value more slowly than similar homes at higher elevations.
"To see them really separate is pretty shocking because you can infer that this is a pricing signal from climate change," said Jesse Keenan, a real estate professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and author of the study.
The concern is twofold.
There will be more frequent storms in the short term.
Thousands of kilometres from home billions of jellyfish-like organisms called velella velella wash up on French coast for the first time ever
Photo: Screengrab France 3/YouTube
The coastline of the French resort Palavas-Les-Flots turned a dark purple Tuesday after jellyfish-like organisms called velella velella washed ashore in the billions.
It's not uncommon for velella velella clusters to wash up on US coastlines.
When spring arrives they move closer to shore, making them susceptible to being pushed ashore due to strong winds and storms.
While velella velella clusters are a somewhat regular occurrence on U.S. coastlines, this marks the first time they've been observed on this part of the French coast.
Argentina farmers are faced with slaughtering 1 million head of cattle as they endure their worst drought in decades
Graph credit gatewaytosouthamerica-newsblog.com
Argentina is the latest land to suffer drought horror as farmers are faced with slaughtering 1 million head of cattle in the coming year after ranchers are faced with the worst drought in decades have decided to slaughter females rather than grow their herds, analysts said.
According to Reuters, a wave of hot, dry weather since November has cut 40 percent off overall grains production in the world’s No. 3 corn and soy exporter and will knock off an estimated 0.7 percent from Argentina’s gross domestic product this year.
In 2015 the heatwaves killed thousands: With summer still weeks away India and now Pakistan enduring temperatures of 42 deg C (108 deg F)
Every year thousands of people die from the heat in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh with the heatwaves beginning in March.
March Madness began in India this week with temperatures of 42 deg C (108 deg F) resulting in people fainting and birds falling out of the sky now Pakistan is reporting similar temperatures.
Karachiites endured the hottest day of the year on Wednesday when the mercury crossed the 40-degree Celsius mark on the thermometer, with the Pakistan Meteorological Department linking the sweltering conditions to a halt in the sea breeze towards the coastal city.
The maximum temperature recorded in the city was 40.5 degrees Celsius, the department said.
The city has been in the grip of a hot spell since Sunday when the temperature rose to 39 degrees Celsius, although the summer is still a few weeks away.
'Marine heatwave' hits The Tasman Sea shattering heat records with both Tasmania and New Zealand recording their hottest summer ever
The Tasman Sea experienced a 'marine heatwave' over summer that pushed the surface temperature to a record high, climate scientists say.
Following a particularly hot summer on both sides of the Tasman and in between, the Bureau of Meteorology and New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research teamed up to release a "special climate statement".
New Zealand's summer was the hottest ever recorded, while Tasmania had its hottest November-January on record.
"Tasmania had its warmest November on record and its second-warmest December and second-warmest January," senior BoM climatologist Dr Blair Trewin said.
NOAA monthly global weather report springs a surprise as Earth had its coolest February since 2014 and December-February since 2014
An annotated map of the globe showing other notable climate events that occurred during February and Winter 2018. (NOAA NCEI) Click on image to enlarge.
Today is the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere but you wouldn't think so if you live in Europe or the Northeast of the US with Siberian cold and heavy snow respectively so late in the season.
NOAA's monthly world weather report came out today for February and guess what?...
Our planet recorded its coolest February since 2014!
"Day Zero" Wrangell Alaska has declared a water emergency and could be the 2nd city to run out of water this year along with Cape Town in SA
Wrangell Alaska has declared a water emergency and could be the 2nd city to run out of water this year along with Cape Town in SA.
City officials say the Southeast community has about one month of supply left.
So, they're asking residents to cut way back on use.
Those conservation measures and more rainfall could solve the problem.
The city said it will "aggressively monitor and strictly enforce" water restrictions for residents.
These mandates include no outside water usage, fixing plumbing leaks and reducing everyday consumption.
"Obviously nobody's watering anything outside yet because it's still too cold.
NOAA: January 5th warmest on record for the globe but try telling that to most of the Northern Hemisphere with record cold and snow in strange places
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An annotated map of the globe showing notable climate events that occurred in January 2018.
January was 5th warmest on record for the globe
Despite the cooling influence of La Nina this winter, the global temperature ranked among the five warmest on record in January. Earth’s polar regions continued to experience record-low ice conditions.
Let’s dive deeper into NOAA’s monthly analysis to see how the planet fared in the first month of the year but first what was The Big Wobble's vision of January?
Daily water ration of 25 litres (6.6 USA gallons) allowed per day (single toilet flush uses nine litres) Cape Town's "Day Zero" approaching soon
Most Cape Town residents would be forced to queue at communal taps at 200 water points-likely under police or military guard-to collect a daily ration of 25 litres (6.6 USA gallons), half the amount allowed now.
The latest data from the City of Cape Town indicates that dam storage level is at 24.9% - a weekly decrease of -0.6%.
South Africa has declared a national disaster over the drought afflicting southern and western regions including Cape Town, though the city pushed back its "Day Zero", the date when its taps are expected to run dry.
However, the decision to declare a national disaster means the central government - which is run by the African National Congress (ANC) - will now take responsibility for relief efforts.
4 million people will be allowed just two-and-a-half buckets of water per person per day as Zero-Day looms and Cape Town's water runs dry
With just 88 days of water left before Zero-Day, frustration is breaking out among residents who are queueing at springs to fill up containers.
With panic beginning to set in amongst Capetonians over the water crisis, citizens are showing their frustration by screaming and shouting as they queue up for water, with officials fearing their fear will lead into all-out anarchy as the crisis reaches its climax, Zero-Day, when Cape town will to be the first major city in the world to run out of water.
With snow on the ground in all 50 states and Russian temperatures of -84F ( -64.4°C) NOAA announce 2017 was 3rd warmest year on record
This week was the first time the US had snow on the ground in all 50 states at the same time since Feb 2010
Crippling winds and record-breaking low temperatures were recorded in New Orleans and other cities in the US deep south this week.
The blast of cold air shattered records early Wednesday in Louisiana and Mississippi.
It's the second time already in 2018 freeze warnings for deep south and the Gulf Coast have been recorded.
The research was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters and was conducted by scientists from Chile, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and Norway.
"We do not have to wait until the end of the century to see the problems associated with sea level rise. The problems are here now," said Jason Box, professor of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).
2018 set to be 4th hottest on record as November is officially the 5th hottest on record according to NOAA: 2019 could be hottest ever Met Office
According to NOAA, November 2018 was fifth hottest on record for the globe continuing their stance on global warming
NASA, on the other hand, are claiming temperatures for the whole globe could be about to plummet as our sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age.
Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018 and Earth’s upper atmosphere is responding, says Dr Phillips, editor of spaceweather.com.
Meanwhile this week, the British Met Office has gone one further claiming next year, 2019 could be the warmest on record.
Warmer or cooler? US: Record December Snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic: November 2018 was cooler, wetter for U.S. as deadly wildfires torched California
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November served up a meteorological mixed bag for the contiguous United States: Massive, deadly wildfires devastated entire communities in California and an early season blizzard hit the Midwest, while cool temperatures prevailed east of the Rockies and record rains fell in the East.
It's not often that the Mid-Atlantic and the southern Appalachians get buried under a foot of snow in early December.
But that's what happened last weekend (Dec. 8-9), when a moisture-packed winter storm walloped the region with record-setting snowfall
Monster dust storms; torrential rains; worst drought in living memory; deadly wildfires; bats falling dead from trees: Summer in Aus
"The intensity of yesterdays rainfall was phenomenal - 91mm fell in 90 minutes," forecaster Rob Taggart told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The storm centred on coastal parts of New South Wales (NSW) but was reported to have missed many inland regions affected by drought.
A future of record cold or record warm? Conflicting headlines from NASA NOAA The Met Office President Trump all disagree
As commuters in Chicago and across the Midwest faced inches of heavy, wet snow as they returned to work on Monday after the long U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with the storm knocking out power to nearly a quarter of a million people as the early winter storm devastated the area, we are once again confronted with conflicting reports from the so-called experts.
Yesterday the UK’s most comprehensive picture yet of how the climate could change over the next century was launched by the Environment Secretary Michael Gove.
Another tipping point breached: Salmon have disappeared in Scotland: Not a single salmon caught during the entire season.
But now Global warming is being blamed for Scotland's worst salmon season in living memory.
Some beats on famous rivers like the Spey and the Nith recorded not a single salmon caught during the entire season.
Just two salmon were caught on the River Fyne in Argyll this year, where once more than 700 were caught each season.
The number of fish caught by anglers has been so low that some estates have stopped selling permits for once-popular beats because there is no fish to catch.
Tourism has been hit, sales of salmon tackle have slumped and ghillies have lost their jobs.
Hundreds of parasite creatures which were the inspiration for the film 'Alien' wash up off the Co Kerry coast days after UFO sightings
A string of the eerie-looking parasites called Phronima - which bear an uncanny resemblance to the alien queen in the iconic movies - have been found on Ventry Beach outside Dingle.
The creatures - which eat barrel jellyfish from the inside out and ride around in their corpse - are an extremely rare find in Ireland.
The director of Dingle Oceanworld Kevin Flannery said: "Then the female lays her eggs inside in the poor barrel jellyfish."
He quipped that it is very timely find as pilots spotted strange objects flying close to their planes last Friday
Government team claim climate change will cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars after Trump Tweet over brutal cold
Clashing with Trump, U.S. government report says climate change will batter economy: New report warns of unprecedented growing impact on US life.
Trump administration releases its own apocalyptic report on climate change which estimates that 10 PER CENT of GDP will be lost to man-made global warming by 2100 and bring catastrophic consequences to the US which comes just days after the president Tweeted; Brutal and extended cold blast, (for the nations Thanksgiving holiday) could shatter ALL RECORDS-whatever happened to global warming.
Kilometers beneath the ice of Antarctica a radioactive heat source is slowly melting it from underneath: Hot material slowly melting the ice
Researchers flew planes over the ice using radar to "see" three kilometers beneath the ice, where the hot material seems to be slowly melting the ice.
The researchers believe the heat source is radioactive rocks and hot water from inside Earth's crust. While Antarctica isn't going to melt away overnight, it could have important knock-on effects when combined with climate change, according to new measurements by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
Researcher Tom Jordan believes the process of melting observed has likely been going on for thousands or maybe even millions of years but isn't directly contributing to "ice sheet change".
Global warming-Mini ice rage goes on! Feds to release major climate report during coldest Thanksgiving on record in Parts of the U.S.
Bitterly Cold Black Friday Will Be Among the Coldest on Record in Parts of the Northeast.
An arctic air mass will engulf the Northeast in time for Thanksgiving weekend.
Lows will be 10 to 20 degrees below average Black Friday.
Another blast of cold air will bring one of the coldest Thanksgivings on record for some Northeast cities.
According to The Weather Channel, a strong area of high pressure originating from the Arctic Circle is now sweeping into the Northeast and will send temperatures plummeting toward levels you might expect on New Year's Day, not Thanksgiving Day.
Low temperatures Thanksgiving morning and Black Friday will be 15 to 30 degrees below average for late November.
A dust storm measuring 500 kilometres (310 miles) is blanketing Australia's southeast after suffering one of the worst droughts in memory
Satellite images show the wall of dust roughly the same distance from London to Paris as it moves across New South Wales towards the coast.
Authorities issued a public health alert for Sydney on Thursday, rating the air particle quality as very poor and warning children, the elderly and those with respiratory problems to stay inside.
Senior forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology Dean Narramore told CNN affiliate 9 News the dust plume was moving quickly east.
Global warming or mini-ice-age? Coldest Thanksgiving in 100 years: Arctic blast in Europe: October 2018 the 2nd hottest since records began.
Thanksgiving to usher in a blast of Arctic air over U.S. Northeast.
It’s time to pull out the heavy winter coat for your post-dinner stroll this Thursday, say NOAA meteorologists.
Thanksgiving Day temperatures will reach only the teens and 20s over much of the Northeast, possibly setting cold records stretching back 100 years.
And it's not just the U.S. and Canada suffering the cold, most of Europe and the British Isles and Ireland are shivering from a blast of Arctic air from "The Beast Of The East."
"We are facing a +3-4°C world and will condemn us to an uninhabitable planet" Oakland is 3rd California city to declare a Climate Emergency
Oakland's vote marks growing regional momentum and a movement of cities to treat global warming as the emergency it is.
Oakland joins Berkeley and Richmond in launching an emergency-speed Climate Mobilization and Just Transition effort.
This means that the City will...
Another giant iceberg has broken free from Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica about five times the size of Manhattan
Like many other marine terminating glaciers in Antarctica, this glacier is retreating over time and increasing the movement of ice into the sea.
The iceberg had first appeared as a rift across Pine Island Glacier in September, before leading to the calving of about 300 square kilometres, or 116 square miles, of ice.
The largest individual iceberg measures about 226 square kilometres in area, or 87 square miles. While this iceberg itself is not record-breaking - it ranks as the sixth-largest iceberg to break off the Pine Island Glacier since 2001 - it illustrates the continued instability of marine-terminating glaciers in parts of the icebound continent.
August 2018 was 5th hottest on record for the globe and 403rd consecutive month with global temperatures above average
After flaming July 2018 was confirmed as the 403rd consecutive month with global temperatures above average and the 4th hottest on record August has weighed in as the 5th hottest August on record for the globe in NOAA recent monthly report.
As expected NOAA claimed Polar sea ice coverage remains at near-record lows.
August was another hot one for the record books.
Climate changed! Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic collapsing at a fantastic 82 feet a day in 2015 and its getting worse
That dwarfs the ice's previous average speed of about 2 inches per day and has challenged scientists' assumptions about the stability of the cold ice caps dotting Earth's high latitudes.
As the Arctic thaws NASA releases video of bubbling lakes releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at unprecedented rates
The international research team, funded by NASA as part of their Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), recently published their results in Nature Communications.
What they found are bubbling lakes as greenhouse gases are released from the previously frozen ground, leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions and a warming positive feedback.
The Arctic is one of the largest natural reservoirs of organic carbon, trapped within the frozen soils.
If a tree dies, say in the Amazon rainforest, it is quickly eaten (rot) away by bacteria, which respire the same as humans.
Israel is the latest of a growing number of countries struggling with drought as experts claim it is the longest in more than a hundred years
Israel has been experiencing the most consecutive drought years in more than a century, Israel Water Authority director Giora Shaham said on Sunday.
He noted that two islands have already arisen in Lake Kinneret due to the dropping water levels, and one of them is expected to merge with the surrounding land.
Burn Baby Burn-July was 403rd consecutive month with global temperatures above average and the 4th hottest on record: NOAA
Heatwaves in July were reported from Canada, U.S. UK, Ireland, Europe, Russia, Japan and the Korean peninsula as the Northern Hemisphere baked in what appeared to be endless sunshine, in my part of the world Holland we didn't have a meaningful drop of rain during July as most days climbed well above 30 deg C, well into the 90's deg F.
Heat records around the world to tumbled daily as climate change became all so real.
Meteorologist described loss of ice as "scary": The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up for the first time ever
This phenomenon - which has never been recorded before - has occurred twice this year due to warm winds and a climate-change-driven heatwave in the northern hemisphere.
One meteorologist described the loss of ice as "scary".
Others said it could force scientists to revise their theories about which part of the Arctic will withstand warming the longest.
The entire state of New South Wales the breadbasket of Australia is now impacted by drought killing crops and diminishing livestock feed
A drier-than-expected June and July have left many farmers with failing crops, a short supply of water and diminishing livestock feed.
According to the NSW Department of Primary Industries, 61% of NSW is either in drought or intense drought, while nearly 39% is drought affected.
"This is tough," the NSW primary industries minister, Niall Blair, said in a statement on Wednesday. 'There isn't a person in the state that isn't hoping to see some rain for our farmers and regional communities."
HSBC one of the world's largest banks tipping point warning! Earth spent its entire resource budget for the year by August 1
The world spent its entire natural resource budget for the year by August 1, a group of analysts at HSBC said in a note that cited research from the Global Footprint Network (GFN).
That means that the world's citizens used up all the planet's resources for the year in just seven months, according to GFN's analysis.
"In our opinion, these findings and events show that many businesses and governments are not adequately prepared for climate impacts, nor are they using natural resources efficiently," the HSBC analysts said in the note.
Burn-baby-burn: It's too late to put out the fire! Scientists claim a domino effect around the world will result in a 'hothouse Earth' state
A new study by the Stockholm Resilience Centre is claiming places on Earth will become uninhabitable after a series of events would cause a tipping point producing a domino effect around the world resulting in a 'hothouse Earth' state. Report Here
But as the most of the Northern Hemisphere is struggling from a record-breaking heat this summer, has the tipping point been breached already?
A surface sea sample the warmest it has ever been since records began in 1916 found off the iconic Scripps Pier in La Jolla, California.
Every single day, someone walks to the end of the pier and takes a seawater sample at the surface and bottom of the ocean and measures its temperature and salt concentration ("salinity").
Earlier this week on August 1, the surface sample was the warmest it has been since the record began in 1916.
Researchers measured a sea surface temperature of 78.6 °F, which was 0.2 °F greater than the previous record from an unusual warming event in July 1931.
These temperatures are on par with what is observed off the coast of Miami, Florida during winter months, which are known to be the warmest waters around the continental United States.
Searing heat shrinks Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain glacier by 13 feet of snow in just one month losing it's crown of Sweden's highest peak
The announcement came Wednesday in a press release declaring the mountain's northern tip as the nation's new tallest peak.
From July 2 to 31, the southern tip lost 13 feet of snow to melting as much of Scandinavia baked in searing heat.
"This is happening very fast," Stockholm University geography professor Gunhild Rosqvist said in a statement.
"The result of this hot summer will be a record loss in snow and ice in the mountains."
"The humidity is just horrid," Five year drought and extremely warm ocean temperatures behind extraordinarily muggy Southern California.
"The humidity is just horrid," says Delia Pollara who is visiting from Riverside with her grandkids, enjoying the warm waters off our coast.
The warm ocean waters are the main reason it has been feeling extraordinarily muggy in Southern California.
Alex Tardy, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, says the water is "warm, and it's unusually warm, even for July."
A strange species of jellyfish not seen for a hundred years is found in Sweden as exotic species are spotted on both sides of the Atlantic
The species is known as the clinging jellyfish, and it was last seen in Sweden 88 years ago.
"It originates from the Pacific Ocean and was last seen in Sweden in 1930.
It has also been found in Norway and Denmark, but never before has it managed to breed in Sweden," marine biologist Bjorn Kallstrom told SVT.
An unprecedented two month drought the hottest temperatures on record the UK now has the wettest day ever and it's going to get worse
Parts of the UK experienced their "wettest ever day," with Aldergrove in Northern Ireland hit by 98.8mm - which is more than a month's worth of rainfall.
The UK is braced for more than 36 hours of torrential downpour, according to the Met Office which has issued several weather warnings over rainfall and gale-force winds.
From sharks to deadly stingrays and monster-sized jellyfish strange creatures showing up on both sides of the Atlantic during heatwave
As 2018 continues to bake in the Northern Hemisphere the Atlantic ocean is beginning to show increased stress as strange and unusual creatures are turning up where they don't belong.
Stingrays have been spotted in shallow water close to a number of beaches in the Channel Island of Jersey in the UK.
According to The Daily Mail, the increased numbers of the deadly creatures are believed to be linked to the prolonged spell of warm and settled weather, which has encouraged stingrays to move out of deeper water.
Meanwhile, the BBC reported yesterday that swimmers were warned over a 9ft blue shark spotted close to the beach in St Ives, Cornwall.
Iceberg six kilometres wide breaking up on Greenland coast just weeks after Glacier loses eight billion tons of ice half the size of Manhattan
The authorities have urged residents of the Innaarsuit island settlement with houses on a promontory to move away from the shore over fears that the 100-metre high iceberg, which was spotted on Thursday, could swamp the area.
"We fear the iceberg could calve and send a flood towards the village," Lina Davidsen, a security chief at the Greenland police, told Danish news agency Ritzau on Friday.
Climate change caught on film: Greenland's Helheim Glacier loses eight billion tons of ice half the size of New York's Manhattan Island
All was quiet on June 22 as Canadian husband-and-wife scientists David and Denise Holland settled in for the night off Greenland's Helheim Glacier.
The glacier researchers from New York University had spent four nights on the south side of Helheim but had just set up camp on the north side.
Denise had positioned her video camera - just in case - when she heard a noise that seemed to carry on "for an extended period of time."
That noise was a major breakup of the glacier that lasted more than 30 minutes.
Massive pieces of ice half a kilometre high broke off.
70 people have died in Quebec due to heat as the planet recovers from record smashing global heatwave which shocked the experts
Health authorities say up to 70 people may have died in Quebec as a result of heat-related complications since the beginning of an early July heat wave that saw temperatures climb to more than 40 C with the humidex.
Temperatures have since cooled off across the province and a spokesperson with Quebec's Public Health Department says Monday it would no longer be giving updates on heat-related deaths because "the situation is back to normal."
Most of the deaths occurred in Montreal, with 34 cases reported to authorities.
As 2018 is set to be the hottest year ever Europe is beginning to parch from the lack of water after 50 days without rainfall
As June is expected to be named the hottest June ever on this planet and July going the same way and 2018 set to be the hottest year ever Europe is beginning to parch from the lack of water
After what seems like weeks without rainfall this is what grass looks like in North Holland after the incredible heatwave which has gripped the UK and Western and Northern Europe recently.
Reservoirs are running dry after a 50-day dry spell while global temperatures rocket.
Drought emergency expanding through the breadbasket of America as the entire state of Kansas is under some stage of drought
Kansas has expanded the number of counties classified as having a drought emergency so that nearly half are covered.
Gov. Jeff Colyer issued an executive order Friday listing 50 of the state's 105 counties as having a drought emergency.
His new order replaces one in March listing 28 counties as having an emergency.
That status allows counties to use water from some state fishing lakes and federal reservoirs.
The entire state is under some stage of drought.
Antarctica lost 219 billion tonnes of ice since 2012 up from the 76 billion recorded in previous years global sea levels could be 3 feet higher by 2070
Antarctica has lost 219 billion tonnes of ice since 2012, up from the 76 billion that was recorded in previous years.
Researchers fear that if the thaw continues to increase at this rate, low-lying communities and coastal cities from New York to Shanghai could be under water by 2100.
"The sharp increase ... is a big surprise," Professor Andrew Shepherd, of the University of Leeds in England, told Reuters.
Working among a team of 80 scientists from 14 different countries, Shepherd helped compile data for a groundbreaking ...
As the world warms up deadly lightning storms are increasing by 12% every degree Celsius of warming killing thousands around the globe
Bangladesh has seen a near-record number of deaths in the last two years from a phenomenon that appears to be worsening with climate change: lightning strikes.
So far this year hundreds of deaths have been reported in India and Pakistan from lightning strikes.Most lightning deaths usually occur during the warm months of March to July.
India has seen a similar surge in lightning deaths with more than 300 deaths in May so far.
Almost 100% of Arizona is in severe drought after a rainfall deficit dating back to October which is up 10% in the last week
The new drought stats are in and they don't look good for the Grand Canyon State.
As of May 24th, 97% of Arizona is in severe drought.
Extreme drought now covers 73% of the state, which is up 10% in the last week.
16% of Arizona is classified under exceptional drought, which is the worst drought category.
The exceptional drought has increased 6% in the last week, covering an area stretching from far northeast Maricopa County to the Four Corners.
The increase comes as no surprise, considering how dry the state was this Winter and Spring. According to 4WARN Meteorologist Jeff Beamish, Tucson's rainfall deficit dating back to October 1st has increased to 2.83".
Heatwave kills 65 people in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi as temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) during Ramadan
A heatwave has killed 65 people in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi over the past three days, a social welfare organization said on Tuesday, amid fears the death toll could climb as the high temperatures persist.
The heatwave has coincided with power outages and the holy month of Ramadan when most Muslims do not eat or drink during daylight hours.
Temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) on Monday, local media reported. Faisal Edhi, who runs the Edhi Foundation that operates morgues and an ambulance service in Pakistan's biggest city, said the deaths occurred mostly in the poor areas of Karachi.
Heatwave hits Sweden as temps to climb above 30 deg C while near freezing temperatures hit South Australia 2018 continues to surprise
The heatwave from Finland is expected to stick around until Wednesday, according to national weather agency SMHI, with unusually high May temperatures in almost the whole of Sweden.
"We'll have temperatures far above normal in all of the country if you compare to statistics between 1961 and 1990," said SMHI meteorologist Linus Dock.
Only in the far north of the Lapland mountains is the mercury expected to stay at normal levels.
The world's hottest April day ever is followed with the Arctic recording its warmest period on record for the time of year; sea ice near record low
In four of the past five winters, the North Pole has witnessed dramatic temperatures spikes, which previously were rare.
Now, in the lead up to summer, the temperature has again shot up to unusually high levels at the tip of the planet.
Scientists say this warming could hasten the melt of Arctic sea ice, which is already near record low levels.
In just the past few days, the temperature at the North Pole has soared to the melting point of 32 degrees, which is about 30-35 degrees (17-19 Celsius) above normal.
Much of the entire Arctic north of 80 degrees latitude is abnormally warm.
The temperature averaged over the whole region appears to be the warmest on record for the time of year, dating back to at least 1958.
The world's hottest April day ever at 122.4F (50.2C) belongs to Pakistan but the rest of the globe is also witnessing very strange weather
The Pakistan Meteorological Department confirmed the extreme temperature was recorded in the city of Nawabshah on Monday, April 30, potentially making it the hottest April temperature ever witnessed on Earth.
Today England experienced it's warmest May day ever when the mercury hit 84F (29C) on it's May Bank Holiday with Holland to have it's hottest May day tomorrow with temperatures around 30C, 86F
And yesterday almost 200 feral horses died in a heatwave around a dried up pond in Navajo land in northern Arizona, according to tribal leaders, the victims of overpopulation and dwindling water resources.
Sick of the cold? Is March really the 5th warmest on record? And snow in Spain USA Canada UK Asia & Africa where will April be on the list?
At the beginning of March 200 million were battered by 2 deadly storms on both sides of Atlantic.
A bomb cyclone smashed the US northeast while storm Emma slammed northern Europe, a weather bomb smashed 70 million Americans along the northeast while more than 100 million people in Ireland, the UK and parts of Europe were battered by Storm Emma.
Climate change high tides frequent storms and sea-level rise worrying for Miami home owners as house prices drop due to their vulnerability
Research published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that single-family homes in Miami-Dade County were increasing in value more slowly than similar homes at higher elevations.
"To see them really separate is pretty shocking because you can infer that this is a pricing signal from climate change," said Jesse Keenan, a real estate professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and author of the study.
The concern is twofold.
There will be more frequent storms in the short term.
Thousands of kilometres from home billions of jellyfish-like organisms called velella velella wash up on French coast for the first time ever
The coastline of the French resort Palavas-Les-Flots turned a dark purple Tuesday after jellyfish-like organisms called velella velella washed ashore in the billions.
It's not uncommon for velella velella clusters to wash up on US coastlines.
When spring arrives they move closer to shore, making them susceptible to being pushed ashore due to strong winds and storms.
While velella velella clusters are a somewhat regular occurrence on U.S. coastlines, this marks the first time they've been observed on this part of the French coast.
Argentina farmers are faced with slaughtering 1 million head of cattle as they endure their worst drought in decades
Argentina is the latest land to suffer drought horror as farmers are faced with slaughtering 1 million head of cattle in the coming year after ranchers are faced with the worst drought in decades have decided to slaughter females rather than grow their herds, analysts said.
According to Reuters, a wave of hot, dry weather since November has cut 40 percent off overall grains production in the world’s No. 3 corn and soy exporter and will knock off an estimated 0.7 percent from Argentina’s gross domestic product this year.
In 2015 the heatwaves killed thousands: With summer still weeks away India and now Pakistan enduring temperatures of 42 deg C (108 deg F)
March Madness began in India this week with temperatures of 42 deg C (108 deg F) resulting in people fainting and birds falling out of the sky now Pakistan is reporting similar temperatures.
Karachiites endured the hottest day of the year on Wednesday when the mercury crossed the 40-degree Celsius mark on the thermometer, with the Pakistan Meteorological Department linking the sweltering conditions to a halt in the sea breeze towards the coastal city.
The maximum temperature recorded in the city was 40.5 degrees Celsius, the department said.
The city has been in the grip of a hot spell since Sunday when the temperature rose to 39 degrees Celsius, although the summer is still a few weeks away.
'Marine heatwave' hits The Tasman Sea shattering heat records with both Tasmania and New Zealand recording their hottest summer ever
Following a particularly hot summer on both sides of the Tasman and in between, the Bureau of Meteorology and New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research teamed up to release a "special climate statement".
New Zealand's summer was the hottest ever recorded, while Tasmania had its hottest November-January on record.
"Tasmania had its warmest November on record and its second-warmest December and second-warmest January," senior BoM climatologist Dr Blair Trewin said.
NOAA monthly global weather report springs a surprise as Earth had its coolest February since 2014 and December-February since 2014
Today is the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere but you wouldn't think so if you live in Europe or the Northeast of the US with Siberian cold and heavy snow respectively so late in the season.
NOAA's monthly world weather report came out today for February and guess what?...
Our planet recorded its coolest February since 2014!
"Day Zero" Wrangell Alaska has declared a water emergency and could be the 2nd city to run out of water this year along with Cape Town in SA
City officials say the Southeast community has about one month of supply left.
So, they're asking residents to cut way back on use.
Those conservation measures and more rainfall could solve the problem.
The city said it will "aggressively monitor and strictly enforce" water restrictions for residents.
These mandates include no outside water usage, fixing plumbing leaks and reducing everyday consumption.
"Obviously nobody's watering anything outside yet because it's still too cold.
NOAA: January 5th warmest on record for the globe but try telling that to most of the Northern Hemisphere with record cold and snow in strange places
An annotated map of the globe showing notable climate events that occurred in January 2018.
January was 5th warmest on record for the globe
Despite the cooling influence of La Nina this winter, the global temperature ranked among the five warmest on record in January. Earth’s polar regions continued to experience record-low ice conditions.
Let’s dive deeper into NOAA’s monthly analysis to see how the planet fared in the first month of the year but first what was The Big Wobble's vision of January?
Daily water ration of 25 litres (6.6 USA gallons) allowed per day (single toilet flush uses nine litres) Cape Town's "Day Zero" approaching soon
The latest data from the City of Cape Town indicates that dam storage level is at 24.9% - a weekly decrease of -0.6%.
South Africa has declared a national disaster over the drought afflicting southern and western regions including Cape Town, though the city pushed back its "Day Zero", the date when its taps are expected to run dry.
However, the decision to declare a national disaster means the central government - which is run by the African National Congress (ANC) - will now take responsibility for relief efforts.
4 million people will be allowed just two-and-a-half buckets of water per person per day as Zero-Day looms and Cape Town's water runs dry
With panic beginning to set in amongst Capetonians over the water crisis, citizens are showing their frustration by screaming and shouting as they queue up for water, with officials fearing their fear will lead into all-out anarchy as the crisis reaches its climax, Zero-Day, when Cape town will to be the first major city in the world to run out of water.
With snow on the ground in all 50 states and Russian temperatures of -84F ( -64.4°C) NOAA announce 2017 was 3rd warmest year on record
Crippling winds and record-breaking low temperatures were recorded in New Orleans and other cities in the US deep south this week.
The blast of cold air shattered records early Wednesday in Louisiana and Mississippi.
It's the second time already in 2018 freeze warnings for deep south and the Gulf Coast have been recorded.
"Day Zero" April 29, 2018 is the day Cape Town population 3.75 million becomes the first major city in the world to run out of drinking water!
On January the 1st 2018 residents of South Africa's bustling city of Cape Town, home of nearly 4 million people celebrated the start of a new year with stringent new water regulations.
Weather wars! We are all doomed as establishment claim's record warming and anti-establishment warns of a mini-ice-age
Most of the US will be plunged into Arctic conditions on New Year's Eve with some parts plummeting to minus 36.6 deg C (minus 34 deg F) with meteorologists warning of frostbite to exposed skin.
With parts of the US colder than Mars and the North Pole and record snowfall in Pennsylvania at the moment, it's hard to imagine NOAA scientists recently claimed November was the 395th consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average and 2017, 2016 and 2015 the three warmest years ever.
November was the 395th consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average and 2017 set to be the third warmest ever: NOAA
As California tackles, one of it's biggest wildfires in history reports claim nearly 1 billion (963 million) dead trees in California and Colorada alone
The U.S. Forest Service announced Monday that an additional 27 million trees, mostly conifers, died throughout California since November 2016, see here, bringing the total number of trees that have died due to drought and bark beetles to a historic 129 million on 8.9 million acres.
The dead trees continue to pose a hazard to people and critical infrastructure, mostly centred in the central and southern Sierra Nevada region of the state.
The dead trees continue to pose a hazard to people and critical infrastructure, mostly centred in the central and southern Sierra Nevada region of the state.
