Three and a half years ago I had a New Year’s Eve that I will never forget. Not because of a spectacular house party or dazzling fireworks display, but because I got stranded in a tiny Australian beach town when the only road out became cut off by a rapidly approaching bushfire. Lunch was coated...
NOAA precipitation estimates that engineers and planners use to design bridges, roads and other infrastructure are decades out of date because of climate change CLIMATEWIRE | At a tiny airport in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, a weather station feeds precipitation data to a NOAA program that publishes the official precipitation estimates for most of the...