by Becca Edwards | May 29, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
The stagnant, hot, humid conditions over the weekend led to very hazy conditions in Central Texas over the weekend. The haze obscured distant skylines and natural features, turned the sky white, and generally contributed to the unpleasantness of the extremely hot...
by Becca Edwards | May 29, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
Memorial weekend saw extreme heat across a large portion of the State of Texas. My family was scheduled to go camping and hiking Sunday and Monday at Enchanted Rock. We chose Memorial Day weekend for the outing because that is early enough in the summer that our...
by Becca Edwards | May 29, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
Springtime is severe weather in Texas, so it is not unusual to see thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes this time of year. What has been unusual is the frequency and severity of the severe weather. A brief survey of the storm reports for Texas available at the National...
by Becca Edwards | May 29, 2024 | Latest Posts
The story in southeast Texas, including the Houston metro area, has been flooding and wind. The first flood event happened in East Texas in the end of April, when some locations like Jasper County reported rain rates greater than six inches per hour leading to large...
by Becca Edwards | May 24, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
A global sea surface temperature anomaly plot showing cooler than average sea surface temperatures in the eastern Equatorial Pacific, indicating the beginning of the cool phase of the ENSO climate oscillation, also called "La Niña". In the US we often hear the...
