Extreme weather update - 10/08/2017

Climate & Extreme Weather News #71 (October 1st-8th 2017)

Climate & Extreme Weather News #71 (October 1st to October 8th 2017)

*** 11.56 Biloxi, Mississippi not Missouri***
1:48 Tropical Storm Nate: Floods & landslides in Costa Rica & Nicaragua
11:43 The USA: Hurricane Nate & Montana snowstorm
15:51 Germany & Poland: Storm Xavier
19:10 Norway: Southern Norway floods
21:45 India: Hyderabad floods
26:02 Australia: Bundaberg storm
27:38 Indonesia: Pangandaran flood
29:00 Brazil: San Bernardo del Campo hailstorm & flash flood
33:54 Mexico: Oaxaca & Tamaulipas floods

Prediction for Hurricane Nate

Hurricane Nate Threatens New Orleans

Arctic News,

7 October, 2017

The image below, a forecast for October 8, 2017, run on October 7, shows Hurricane Nate near New Orleans, with winds as fast as 83 mph or 134 km/h (at 850 mb) and up to 5.33 in or 135.4 mm (3-hour precipitation accumulation) of rain (at the green circle).

Nate, the fourth major storm to strike the United States in less than two months, killed at least 30 people in Central America before entering the warm waters of the Gulf and bearing down on the U.S. South (Reuters report).

One of the biggest dangers is storm surge flooding, as illustrated by above image and the tweetbelow.

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Ken Graham @wx4keg

7-11 ft storm surge on the MS Gulf Coast and open water coast in SE LA from #Nate. I’m 6ft 6 in. This pole is 11 ft. Some perspective.

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As the world keeps warming, hurricanes are increasingly causing damage, as also discussed in arecent post.

The situation is dire a calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described at the Climate Plan.


Links

• Climate Plan
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html

• NOAA National Hurricane Center
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

• The Arctic is Changing the Jet Stream - Why This Is Important
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-arctic-is-changing-the-jet-stream-why-this-is-important.html

• Extreme weather is upon us
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/09/extreme-weather-is-upon-us.html