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☆ Before and after images reveal extent of tornadoes’ destruction
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Eric Zerkel | Paul P. Murphy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Vexcel Imaging Vexcel Imaging Tornado damage in Elkhorn, Nebraska Vexcel ImagingThe storm then tracked north and east toward Omaha, spawning a tornado that ripped through its western suburbs. Vexcel Imaging Vexcel Imaging Tornado damage in Elkhorn, Nebraska Vexcel ImagingFreshly built homes in a new neighborhood were reduced to piles of timber. Vexcel Imaging Tornado damage to an airport hangar at Omaha's Eppley Airfield Vexcel ImagingThe storms kept going into Iowa. Tornado damage is seen in Minden, Iowa, Saturday, April 27, 2024. At least four people were killed in Oklahoma, all in places hardest-hit by tornadoes: Sulphur, Holdenville and Marietta.

Persons: upending, Adam Lucio, Eppley, Cody Scanlan, Bryan Terry, Rebekah Riess Organizations: CNN, American Heartland, Oklahoma, Travelers, USA Locations: Lincoln , Nebraska, Elkhorn , Nebraska, Omaha, Elkhorn, Omaha’s, Omaha , Nebraska, Iowa, Minden, Pottawattamie County, Texas , Nebraska , Iowa , Kansas, Missouri, Minden , Iowa, Sulphur, Oklahoma, Holdenville, Marietta, Sulphur , Oklahoma

Strange animal behaviors have been observed at the Fort Worth Zoo during totality, according to researchers stationed in Texas. One of the most bizarre animal observations reported during the 2017 total solar eclipse was of giraffes at other facilities gathering in a herd and beginning to gallop. The giraffes did not gallop this year at the Fort Worth Zoo, but they did huddle together and attempt to enter their nighttime enclosures. The most “dramatic reaction” at Fort Worth Zoo came from the primates. “Right at totality, all of the (gorillas) got up from all quarters of the exhibit and walked directly to where they're supposed to be let in (at night),” Hartstone-Rose told CNN.

Persons: Dr, Adam Hartstone, Rose, ” Hartstone Organizations: Fort Worth, Fort Worth Zoo, North Carolina State University, CNN Locations: Texas, Raleigh, Fort

CNN —The wildfire in Texas has already killed two people, demolished hundreds of structures and obliterated thousands of cattle as it became the biggest blaze in the state’s history. Some 8 million people across the Central Plains are under “red flag” warnings and temperatures are above normal in the Texas Panhandle. So far, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has spread across more than 1 million acres and has become the biggest Texas wildfire on record. And the fire is just one of five blazes currently scorching the Texas Panhandle, destroying as many as 500 structures. Sunday’s fire weather threat will be greatest for the Texas Panhandle and western Texas, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

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☆ Snowfall is changing across the globe, new maps show
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Eric Zerkel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Snowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm because of human-caused climate change, a new analysis and maps from a NOAA climate scientist show. There has already been a 2.7% decline in annual global snowfall since 1973, according to Brettschneider’s analysis of data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The increase in snowfall in the Northeast seen on the maps illustrates the complicated nature of changing precipitation patterns with climate change, scientists told CNN. “Even though the total snowfall trend was positive, the days per year with snowfall trend is negative,” Brettschneider told CNN. Managing water with less snowUnderstanding the implications of less snowfall on the global water supply is far more complicated than simply saying less snow falling means less available water, Mankin said.

Persons: ”, Brian Brettschneider, ” Snow, Justin Mankin, haven’t, ” Mankin, Jessica Lundquist, Lundquist, ” Lundquist, ” Brettschneider, Brettschneider, Mankin, “ Organizations: CNN, NOAA, Northeast, National Weather Service, Dartmouth College, University of Washington Locations: Alaska, Northern, California, American, “ California, snowpack, South Asia, Spain, Italy, Greece, North Africa, Morocco

☆ Hurricane Otis’ Acapulco destruction shown in before-and-after images
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Eric Zerkel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —New satellite images capture the scale of destruction Category 5 Hurricane Otis wrought in Acapulco and southern Mexico. Satellite image ©️2023 Maxar Technologies The Acapulco shoreline on October 26, 2023. Satellite image ©️2023 Maxar Technologies Storm surge cut gashes into the beach Satellite image ©️2023 Maxar TechnologiesHotels along the beach in Acapulco, Mexico, on October 4, 2023. Satellite image ©️2023 Maxar Technologies Boats are tossed ashore and buildings torn apart in Acapulco Bay Satellite image ©️2023 Maxar TechnologiesAnd it caught many off guard in Acapulco, some of whom are still missing. Satellite image ©️2023 Maxar Technologies Walmart and Sam's Club after the storm in Acapulco, Mexico, on October 26, 2023.

Persons: Hurricane Otis, Otis –, Otis, Jorge Laurel, ” Laurel, Melitón López, Fátima, “, ‘ I’m, ” López, Laurel, ” CNN’s Gustavo Valdés, ”, Claudia Rebaza, Gustavo Valdés, David von Blohn, Abel Alvarado, David Shortell Organizations: CNN, Hurricane, Otis, Technologies, Acapulco Association of Hotels, Tourist Enterprises, Walmart, Sam's Locations: Acapulco, Mexico, Otis – Acapulco, Acapulco’s, Acapulco Bay, Mexico City

☆ Critical Florida coral ravaged by summer's marine heat wave
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Eric Zerkel | Cnn Meteorologist Derek Van Dam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —This summer’s record-breaking marine heat wave may have been the “nail in the coffin” for an iconic species of coral that serves as a building block of marine life around Florida. They were also the first coral species to gain protected status under the Endangered Species Act, Jennifer Moore, a threatened coral expert for NOAA told CNN. Staghorn coral may have faired slightly better than elkhorn this summer, Williamson said, but still faces similar long term challenges. Scientists fear this summer's ocean heat was the "nail in the coffin" for elkhorn and staghorn species. “We are definitely looking at a major mortality event, we just won’t know the extent of it for a couple more months,” Moore told CNN.

Persons: ”, Liv Williamson, ” Williamson, Jennifer Moore, Moore, Williamson, ” Moore, Liv, ‘, “ Organizations: CNN, University of Miami, NOAA Locations: Florida, Elkhorn, elkhorn, Caribbean, “, Key Largo

CNN —Flooding closed roads, disrupted subway service and flooded basements in the New York City area as “dangerous and life-threatening” rainfall overwhelmed the concrete expanse during the Friday morning commute. “This is a dangerous weather condition and it is not over,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a Friday morning news briefing. “I don’t want those gaps in heavy rain to give the appearance that it is over, it is not.”Happening now:New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley Friday morning. A torrent of water surged into basements in New York City Friday morning, according to New York City emergency management.

Persons: Eric Adams, “, Kathy Hochul, ” Hochul, John F, Lieber, Zach Iscol, orth Organizations: CNN, New, New York, ”, York City, New York Gov, Weather Service, LaGuardia International, WNBC, Metro, Air, Yorkers, Kennedy International Airport, National Weather Service, MTA, Emergency Locations: New York City, Brooklyn, Manhattan, York, New York, Metro, Long, Hudson, Brooklyn , Manhattan, Queens, Hoboken , New Jersey, New, LaGuardia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Southern Brooklyn

Lee, a Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday morning, was centered about 575 miles south of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. A larger Hurricane Lee, then, is more likely to affect the Eastern Seaboard – even if not through a direct landfall. Those tropical storm-force winds could extend over 300 miles from Lee’s center later this week, National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan said in a Monday storm briefing. It’s too soon to know the extent of the impacts Lee might have along the Northeast US and Atlantic Canada late this week and this weekend, the hurricane center said. Three people in New Jersey died in rip currents kicked up in the wake of Hurricane Franklin last week.

Persons: Hurricane Lee, Lee, Michael Brennan, It’s, Hurricane Franklin Organizations: CNN, Hurricane, National Hurricane Center, Seaboard, Atlantic, Carolinas, British, US, Hispanola, Weather Service Locations: Northeast, Bermuda, Canada, Atlantic Canada, East, Florida, Caribbean, US Virgin Islands , Puerto Rico, Turks, Caicos, Bahamas, Massachusetts, New Jersey

☆ Extreme heat will make Grand Canyon visits dramatically more risky in the future, study says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Eric Zerkel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Climate change-fueled extreme heat will significantly increase the risk of heat-related illness for the millions of people who visit Grand Canyon National Park each year, a new National Park Service study found. They found the rate of heat illness per 100,000 visitors increased across both scenarios. Heat is suspected to have killed 16 people at Grand Canyon National Park since 2007 – more than any other national park – according to preliminary heat mortality data provided to CNN. Visitors watch the sun rise along the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park on May 25, 2020. “It tells us so much of the impact of climate change is the variability and the unexpected nature,” Buttke said.

Persons: ” Danielle Buttke, ” Buttke, Mario Tama, Buttke, “, we’re, ” Organizations: CNN, National Park Service, “, National, Service

☆ The climate changed. Get used to it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In this year of epic heat, it’s time to start thinking about how the climate changed rather than the fact of its changing. “These giant swings in temperature over short distances in cities, known as the urban heat island effect, make heat waves even worse,” writes CNN’s Rachel Ramirez of a new report by the nonprofit research group Climate Central. There’s a climate change angle for everywhere and everythingThe reason gas prices have spiked in recent days? “I don’t think anybody can deny the impact of climate change anymore,” Biden said, announcing the measures. The partisan divide over climate change is also the largest it has ever been.

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☆ Florida ocean temperatures top 100 degrees as coral bleaching is found
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Eric Zerkel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —An urgent rescue operation is underway to save Florida coral species from extinction as a mass bleaching event and die-off from unprecedented water temperatures spreads across reefs in the the Florida Keys. Extreme heat and a lack of rain and wind pushed water temperatures around Florida to some of the highest levels ever observed anywhere. The most significant concentration of coral isn’t located in the shallower Florida Bay, where the readings were taken, but that matters little for coral around the Florida Keys baking in water temperatures topping 90 degrees. “The pictures are frankly horrifying,” Katie Lesneski, the monitoring coordinator for NOAA’s Mission: Iconic Reefs told CNN. Coral bleaching as seen at Cheeca Rocks off Islamorada in the Florida Keys.

Persons: ” Keri O’Neal, ” Andrew Ibarra, ”, Ibarra, Andrew Ibarra Ibarra’s, Katie Lesneski, “, ” Lesneski, ” O’Neal, O’Neal, Andrew Ibarra The, KML, Cynthia Lewis, ” Lewis Organizations: CNN, Florida Bay, Data, Florida Aquarium, Coral Restoration Foundation, NOAA, Florida Keys National, NOAA’s, Florida Institute, Oceanography’s Keys Marine Laboratory, “ Locations: Florida, Sombrero, Marathon, Elkhorn

☆ Deadly extreme heat is on the rise in national parks – a growing risk for America’s great outdoors
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Eric Zerkel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

More people are suspected to have died since June 1 from heat-related causes in national parks than an average entire year, according to park service press releases and preliminary National Park Service data provided to CNN. Ground zero for extreme heat deathsAll of this year’s suspected heat-related deaths took place in just three national parks: Grand Canyon, Death Valley and Big Bend. Heat risk and damage to national parks will only increase if unabated carbon pollution continues, Gonzalez said. That’s changing the personal risk calculus for summer recreation now and in the future in increasingly hotter national parks. Ronda Churchill/AFP/Getty ImagesPersonal responsibility weighs heavily in the policy direction the individual national parks take when dealing with the heat.

Persons: –, spokespeople, That’s, Patrick Gonzalez, ” Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Nicolo Sertorio, Abby Wines, Joelle Baird, Baird, Matthew Levy, Maggie Peikon, ”, I’ve, Peikon, that’s, ” Peikon, Ronda Churchill, “, ” Wines, ” Baird, James Thompson, It’s, ” Andrea Walton Organizations: CNN, Service, National Park Service, Climate Central, University of California, Death, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, American Hiking Society, Tourists, Visitor, Getty, Emergency, Region Public Affairs, “ Locations: Big Bend, Mississippi, Alaska, Berkeley, America, Indonesia, Ronda, AFP, Death Valley, Lake Mead, Arizona, Nevada

☆ Canada wildfire smoke drifts into US and triggers new air quality alerts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Eric Zerkel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A recent outbreak of wildfires in western Canada is again sending a plume of unhealthy smoke into the United States. The smoke could also cause issues in Iowa and Illinois, including Chicago, which experienced some of the worst air quality in the world amid heavy smoke in late-June. On Friday, the encroaching smoke dropped air quality in parts of Montana and North Dakota to code red, or unhealthy levels on the Air Quality Index, and to code orange, or unhealthy for sensitive groups, in Minnesota, according to airnow.gov. One firefighter died Thursday responding to one of the blazes near Revelstoke, British Columbia, a press release from the firefighter’s union said. “The news from British Columbia – that one of the firefighters bravely battling wildfires has lost her life – is heartbreaking,” Trudeau said.

Persons: Pete Laing, Justin Trudeau, “, –, ” Trudeau, ” Organizations: CNN, Montana and, Centers for Disease Control, BC Wildfire Service, Indiana ., Indiana . British Columbia, Canadian, Twitter, British Columbia Locations: Canada, United States, Midwest, Minnesota , Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Chicago, Canadian, Quebec, New York, Montana, Montana and North Dakota, Minnesota, Kamloops , British Columbia, Canada’s province, British Columbia, Indiana . British, Revelstoke , British Columbia, British

☆ Heat wave could push temperatures as high as 130 degrees this weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Eric Zerkel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —An already dangerous weeks-long heat wave will only worsen this weekend as a heat dome intensifies and reaches peak strength over parts of the Western United States. Around 100 million people are under heat alerts after the heat dome expanded into places like California, which is now experiencing its first extreme heat wave of the year. This shows how hot areas are compared to average with darker shades indicating more extreme heat. That’s only happened a handful of times, one of which is the all-time global record high temperature of 134 degrees. Before this latest wave, heat has already killed at least 12 people in Phoenix’s Maricopa County this year, and killed 425 people last year.

Persons: It’s, That’s, Dr, Matthew Levy, Levy Organizations: CNN, Western, Phoenix, National Weather Service, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Las Vegas . Locations: Western United States, California, Texas , Florida, Arizona, Las Vegas, Florida, North, Beijing, China, Texas, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Southern California, Southwest, South

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