Weather
One smoky summer does not signify climate change.
Average wind speed, along with the frequency of windy days, steadily increases through the fall, peaking in November.
“It’s been a pretty calm summer lately,” Tyler Thomas of the National Weather Service said.
Maybe your idea of the perfect climate is not as realistic as you think.
Huge grasshopper plagues once filled the skies across the Great Plains every 15-20 years.
If the tilt were just a little more extreme, our winters would be much colder than they are now.
The developing El Niño encourages warm ocean temperatures as well as causing weak winds in the upper atmosphere, both of which will allow tropical storms to form and grow at will.
Last Sunday, 2.2 inches of rain fell in one day on the weather station at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California.
StormTRACKER Meteorologist John Wheeler discusses the continues warm and dry weather.
In this Weather Wednesday we look into how fast tropical storms have formed this week.
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John Wheeler
Lydia Blume
Jesse Ritka
Robert Poynter
Dillon Vogt
Charles Pekar
Robert Daley
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