Brett Anderson

Despite the long-term global warming trend, parts of the eastern United States are getting cooler.

Cold expected to linger in the West, stormy through the Great Lakes region.

A combination of a warming climate climate and increased urbanization (heat island effect) has caused a 25 to 50 percent decrease in low cloud cover in the greater Los Angeles area since the 1970s.

As expected, the tropics are expanding. But what are the causes?

Winter may turn snowy across Ontario and Quebec.

It has been shown that periods of strong Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) coincide with a cooling of the deep ocean and a warming of the surface waters. From NOAA: The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is an important component of the Earth’s climate system, characterized by a northward flow of warm, salty water in...

Heavy snowfall over parts of the Maritime Provinces this weekend.

Rising sea levels may lead to the loss of 40 percent of all beaches on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, by the midpoint of this century, according to new research at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Unless beaches migrate landward, they will end up drowning due to sea level rise, according to the study....

NOAA and NASA have recently released their October global surface temperature data. Despite a strengthening La Nina, which typically has a cooling influence on the global average temperature, last month ranked as the fourth warmest October on record. Records go back to 1880. As you can see by both images above, the greatest warming relative...

By the end of this century, extreme coastal floods that have only occurred once every 100 years in the area surrounding Jamaica Bay in New York may be as common as once every year by the end of this century due to climate change. Thousands of homes currently surround Jamaica Bay, New York, which is...

New research from the University of South Wales (Australia) looked at the potential global impacts of climate change on hailstorms. The study focused on the potential changes to the atmospheric factors that affect hail size and frequency. These factors include atmospheric instability, temperature and wind shear. The results of the study varied across different parts...

Using observations from gravity satellites, researchers from NASA have determined that global evapotranspiration has increased by 10 percent from 2003 to 2017. Evapotranspiration is the rate at which plants and the land surface release moisture into the air. Increasing temperatures due to climate change were expected to result in an increase in evapotranspiration; however, what...

The IPCC recently released its sixth assessment on climate change. This week, I will cover some of the key points in regards to future global temperature and precipitation projections that have been updated. Global temperatures will continue to rise until at least the middle of the 21st century under all five of the man-made emission...

The world’s oceans are warming at a steady clip as the increase in man-made greenhouse gas emissions continues to rapidly warm our planet. More than 90 percent of the warming on Earth between 1971-2010 occurred in the ocean and eventually much of that heat will have to be released into the atmosphere. The warming of...

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an update to their sixth assessment report today, which is titled “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.” Here are just a few of the key points from this latest report with added confidence levels……. Climate change has caused substantial damages, some irreversible losses in terrestrial freshwater...

New research conducted by two NOAA scientists looked at the potential impacts on Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes from the projected 2 degrees Fahrenheit of global warming by the end of the century. Here is what they determined through their study…… A 15-percent increase in rainfall rates in tropical storms and hurricanes. A 2- to...

The average heat content of the world’s oceans was the warmest in the historical record for 2022, beating out the previous record high set in 2021, according to a new study. Global ocean heat content has been accelerating upward, especially since the early 1990s. In addition, annual record highs are almost being set every new...

A high-latitude blocking pattern will continue to feed rounds of colder air farther south into southern Canada and the United States over the next couple of weeks. Compared to a week ago, there is little indication of a cross-polar flow of Arctic air with these air masses, and more of a continental air mass with...

It’s no surprise that the global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration reached a record high once again last month and continues to average about 50 percent higher than what it was before the Industrial Revolution. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide act as a blanket in the atmosphere, allowing less heat to escape back to...