A hot summer and outages triggered by severe storms pushed wholesale electricity prices higher in the first three months of the year, the regulator says. A quarterly report released on Thursday showed soaring heat and humidity increased demand and a severe storm in Victoria sparked outages as congestion in the national grid stopped states sharing […]
Soaring temperatures, thunderstorms and floods are leading 38% of Dutch people to rethink their summer holiday plans, according to new research by the Dutch tourist board NBTC. The board asked 7,000 people in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Britain, France, the US and China about their holiday plans and in total, 46% said extreme weather would influence their choice of destination. But the Dutch, alongside the Germans, were the least likely to take extreme weather conditions into account....
People who personally experience extreme climate events, especially wildfires and hurricanes, are willing to pay significantly more for climate action, even if they report skepticism about human-caused climate change, finds new research from the University of Vermont.
Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather. It’s Friday, April 12, 2024, and National Big Wind Day - celebrating the 90th anniversary of the 231 mph gust measured at New Hampshire's Mount Washington Observatory. You can start your day with everything you need to know about today's weather. You can also get a quick briefing of national, regional and local weather whenever you like with the FOX Weather Update podcast. Severe weather takes a break from the forecast Severe weather in Texas...
Cloud seeding has been named by some media reports as a possible contributor to record-setting rain and flooding in Dubai, U.A.E. Here's a closer look at what cloud seeding is, how it's used and whether it could have made the flooding worse.
Globally, last year was the warmest for thousands of years, with a globally averaged temperature of at least 1.45°C greater than pre-industrial times. The year also saw an unprecedented string of extreme weather and climate events in many parts of the world, including heat waves, torrential rainfall, transitions from drought to floods, wildfires, and sandstorms.
Western New York is receiving $1.65 million to go toward planning for extreme weather. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the funding for the New York State Department of Transportation. The State DOT will use the funding to develop and coordinate emergency response plans for a four-county region that includes Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus, and […]
A Fraser Institute study has implicitly called out the Trudeau government, finding that while the 'media and political activists assert that the evidence for increasing harms from increasing extreme weather is iron-clad, it is anything but.'
In 2023, the stark reality of climate change became evident as it contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands globally.
Bjorn Lomborg, author and president of the Copenhagen Consensus, continues to call attention to the extreme measures being demanded by climate change activists and politicians.
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