Hurricane researchers from Colorado State University on Thursday morning issued an updated forecast that continues to predict the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season will have an above-average number of tropical storms.
The National Hurricane Center is improving its forecasts with a new model capable of crunching a wide range of data and better predicting where storms could make landfall.
Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) believe the new El Niño water temperature phenomenon has a greater than 90 percent chance of lasting through the winter and into 2024. El Niño conditions mean that ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific are higher than normal, which can cause a less severe winter for…
As people around the world contend this week with the hottest temperatures ever recorded on Earth, more visual evidence of climate change is emerging with the spread of ghost forests. The globe is naturally warming and seas naturally rise, but greenhouse gas emissions have helped amplify that change and it’s evident along coastal forests especially in the mid-Atlantic. Ghost forests develop when sea-level rise causes saltwater to advance on the land, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
LIVERMORE — Repairs to area parks damaged by this winter’s storms have begun, but major restoration projects will have to wait until next year before reconstruction is under way.