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History of the future

The core of our problem today is the continuation of increasing heat in our atmosphere. A current article in the Guardian entitled “Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds scientists.” Climate experts feel if this trend continues come August, the world will be in ...

April showers and May flowers

Most years, precipitation across Southwestern Pennsylvania in April becomes more showery as opposed to winterĢƵ day after day of dreary steady light rains. This past week we saw our share of those showers as the month started off with a stalled weather front across our area giving ample ...

Reckoning with the new weather

John Vaillant captures the essence of a new kind of weather in his book “Fire Weather.” ItĢƵ the story of the Fort McMurray forest fire in Alberta, Canada that destroyed most of the town in 2016. Almost 100,000 people had to be evacuated when the unprecedented fire took officials by ...