What is the weather like where you are? 🤔

It looks like we are supposed to get quite a bit of rain in the Houston area this week. Y'all, please stay safe. ☔🌧️

#houstonweather #thunderstorms #rainstorms #severeweathersafety

🐾✨ Lumo • #TentPitching Under Harsh #Weather Conditions

#PitchingTents is an indispensable #survival skill. It's critically important to know how to pitch and secure a tent so it can withstand intense weather conditions like #rainstorms and severe #flooding.

The following is a transcript of a conversation with Proton's #AI assistant LUMO:

Me: "What are some important tips for pitching tents under adverse weather conditions?" https://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/12180966

🔖 T a g s #camping #climate #flood #tenting

Our #Climate Is So Screwed Up, It Rained in the #SaharaDesert

Story by Maggie Harrison Dupré
October 10, 2024

Darude Rainstorm

"How messed up is planet Earth's climate? It's rain-in-the-Sahara-level messed up, apparently.

"As The Associated Press reports, a region of the Sahara Desert in southeastern #Morocco last month experienced a surprise deluge of #rainstorms, which has transformed some parts of the arid North African landscape into lake-filled oases.

"Rain is exceptionally uncommon in the Sahara, which is one of the driest places on the planet. It's especially uncommon during the late summer season.

"Per the AP, the Moroccan government reported that just two days of rain in September surpassed annual averages in areas that usually get less than ten inches of rain per year. One town called #Tagounite got nearly four inches in one day — an eye-popping amount of water for the drought-stricken region.

[...]

"According to the AP, Youabeb, and others are predicting that the unforeseen storms are likely to significantly alter the area's climate in the long term. That's because such a significant amount of rainfall in such a short period will add a consequential amount of water to the surrounding atmosphere."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/our-climate-is-so-screwed-up-it-rained-in-the-sahara-desert/ar-AA1s2dlY

#ClimateChange #DrenchingRains #Sahara #Flooding

windows as canvas
today's torrential downpour
paints an angry sky

#amwriting #nature #spring #rains #rainstorms #paintings #poetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #mpy

stormy day today all day, with brief moments of sun, then more storms

#landscapephotography #portugal #ribatejo #nature #march #rainstorms #countryside #artistinportugal #jonathankeeton

Speculative solar system landscapes

Rain on Titan, by David A. Hardy - 2011

https://ciclops.org/view/6752.html

#spaceart #space #art #astroart #titan #rain #raining #methane #storm #rainstorms #clouds #lightning #sky #cassini #saturn #planet #planets #satellite #satellites #moon #moons #DavidHardy #artist #solarsystem #landscape #landscapes #astronomy #astrodon #universe

No place in the US is safe from the #ClimateCrisis, but a new report shows where it's most extreme

By Ella Nilsen, CNN

Published Nov 14, 2023

"The effects of a rapidly warming climate are being felt in every corner of the US and will worsen over the next 10 years with continued #FossilFuel use, according to a stark new report from federal agencies.

"The Fifth National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report due roughly every five years, warned that even though planet-warming pollution in the US is slowly decreasing, it is not happening nearly fast enough to meet the nation’s targets, nor is it in line with the UN-sanctioned goal to limit #GlobalWarming to 1.5 degrees Celsius – a threshold beyond which scientists warn life on #Earth will struggle to cope.

This year’s assessment reflects the reality that Americans can increasingly see and feel climate impacts in their own communities, said Katharine Hayhoe, a distinguished climate scientist at Texas Tech University and contributor to the report.

“Climate change is affecting every aspect of our lives,” Hayhoe told CNN.

"Some of the report’s sweeping conclusions remain painfully familiar: No part of the US is truly safe from climate disasters; slashing fossil fuel use is critical to limit the consequences, but we’re not doing it fast enough; and every fraction of a degree of warming leads to more intense impacts.

"But there are some important new additions: Scientists can now say with more confidence when the climate crisis has made #rainstorms, #hurricanes and #wildfires stronger or more frequent, long-term #drought more severe and #heat more deadly."

Read more:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/no-place-in-the-us-is-safe-from-the-climate-crisis-but-a-new-report-shows-where-its-most-extreme/1595600

#ClimateChange #Polycrisis #Extinction