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Weather Whiplash
Weather whiplash is the phenomenon of rapid swings between Extreme weather, extremes in weather, which most scientists argue is caused by climate change. Occurrence “Weather whiplash” was coined by climate-science-communicator Paul Beckwith in 2017 in his oft-stated phrase "weather wilding, weirding and whiplashing", but in 2023, ''Vox (website), Voxs Benji Jones wrote that the phrase had been in use for ten years or more. In a 2021 study in the ''International Journal of Climatology'', Cameron C. Lee characterized it as then gaining prominence in both academia and the press. As of 2019, there was no formal scientific definition for weather whiplash. Weather whiplash was observed amid the 2022 European heat waves, which parched France in one of its worst ever recorded droughts and caused the driest July for decades in England, then broke with heavy rain and flooding, and rains the same summer during the Southwestern North American megadrought. In late 2022 and early 2023, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020–2023 North American Drought
A drought developed in the Western, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States in the summer of 2020. Similar conditions started in other states in August 2020, including Iowa, Nebraska and certain parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. At the same time, more than 90% of Utah, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico were in some level of drought. Also in drought conditions were Wyoming, Oregon and Arizona. Over the course of 2021, conditions improved in the Northeast but worsened in the Western United States. As of June 2021, "nearly the entire region (97 percent) asfacing abnormally dry conditions." Drought also affected a wide area of Mexico in 2021, as well as the prairies of Canada. The drought conditions of 2020 were associated with a moderate La Niña episode that had developed in the Pacific Ocean. United States West By autumn 2020, the drought in the Western States was the worst since similar drought conditions seven years earlier. The 2020–2021 drought was described b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
