“If you don’t believe in climate change, come to California. We’re living it,” Newsom said. The majority of the damage is concentrated around the city of Santa Barbara, about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles, where the foothills slope steeply toward the Pacific Ocean. In the Rancho Oso area of the Santa Ynez […]
Emergency crews renewed the threat of power outages and flooding as California braced for another round of high winds and torrential rain, starting Wednesday, that lashed parts of the state over New Year’s weekend. The latest “atmospheric river” – an airborne current of dense moisture flowing in from the ocean – was expected to drench […]
US winter storm death toll rises to 61
‘Worst Christmas Ever’ The perfect storm of severe snow, howling wind and sub-zero temperatures has caused the cancellation of nearly 20,000 US flights in recent days, including more than 3,000 on Tuesday, according to the tracking site Flightaware.com. Most of the cancellations on Tuesday were at Southwest Airlines, which pulled more than 60 percent of […]
The NWS previously warned that blizzards in the Great Lakes region of western New York continued into Sunday, “accumulating an additional two to three feet of snow (by) Sunday night.” A couple in Buffalo, across the border from Canada, told AFP on Saturday they would not be able to make the 10-minute drive to see […]
Blizzard kills 12 in Buffalo, New York, area
The severe cold is an immediate concern for the hundreds of thousands of power customers who were without power, according to tracker poweroutage.us. In El Paso, Texas, desperate migrants from Mexico crowded churches, schools and a civic center for warmth, Rosa Falcon, a school teacher and volunteer, told AFP. But some still chose to stay […]
Cook said the lowest Friday morning temperature in the United States was recorded in Havre, Montana, where the thermometer read minus 38 F (minus 38 Celsius). But the cold may prove to be an even greater public safety threat in the American South, as those regions are less used to cold and snow. “Bundle up […]
More than 3,520 US flights were already canceled Friday and another 1,900 were delayed, according to the tracking website Flight Aware, many at international hubs in New York, Seattle and Chicago’s O’Hare. US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned that holiday travel was being severely affected. “To say we’ve had the opposite of cooperative weather would […]
Arctic ‘bomb cyclone’ puts holiday travel at risk for millions of Americans
why it matters As watchdog groups call out companies for failing to disclose how climate change could threaten them financially, investors face mounting pressure to factor in climate risks and not go too far . “It’s the Wild West in terms of what companies should be doing. And there are some that are doing greenwashing, […]
