South Texas inundated with 19 inches of flooding rain, water rescues underway
Dozens of water rescues were reported in southern Texas as more than 19 inches of rain flooded the area.
By Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather meteorologist and senior weather editor
Published Mar 28, 2025
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/south-texas-inundated-with-19-inches-of-flooding-rain-water-rescues-underway/1760071
#ExtremeWeather #Texas #Floods
AP: At least 3 people dead, hundreds rescued after severe storms flood streets in South Texas
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Drenching rain along the Texas-Mexico border let up Friday, but rescues were still ongoing a day after severe storms trapped residents in their homes, forced drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads and shut down an airport. At least three people died.
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review
"Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow, elongated regions of intense atmospheric moisture transport that are responsible for a large proportion of midlatitude extreme precipitation. [...] ARs will intensify due to warmer air’s ability to hold more moisture."
A team led by Brazilian researchers carried out a 70-day expedition around Antarctica to understand the melting rate of glacial ice and to see how the region is reacting to global warming.
The changes in the landscape that the researchers encountered were shocking, leading them to predict that Brazil’s climate will be increasingly affected by warming in Antarctica.
By Fernanda Wenzel
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/expedition-links-antarctic-glacial-melting-to-climate-catastrophe-in-brazil/
#Trumpocalypse’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new #extremeWeather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/mar/26/extreme-weather-risk-tool-fema-trump #science #ClimateCatastrophe
You can see all the big trends clearly before they happen, and then still be surprised by all the completely unanticipated little details of the future.
For example, I absolutely did not expect us to respond to #ClimateChange and #ExtremeWeather events by wrapping our brand new cars in cardboard before the tornados and 2" hailstones arrive.
What can you do with your eco-anxiety?
Here some tips and context:
Oceans at record high temperatures, sea levels rising and glaciers retreating at record speed.
Global heating is contributing to more #extremeweather events that have led the highest levels of displacement, worsening food crises and massive economic losses.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-united-nations-bb8e475cdaa3b3fb348f88276837d50e
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review
(If you still are not convinced how quickly that approaches, just go and ask an insurance or re-insurance company mathematician calculating the risks, for opinions on climate breakdown)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-dB1Wr897c
The WMO report on 2024 weather events: https://wmo.int/files/significant-weather-climate-events-2024
The Ecological Benefits Of More Room For Rivers
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00403-0 <-- shared technical article
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#spatial #spatiotemporal #morphology #meander #levee #understanding #oxbow #pointbar #river #water #hydrology #landform #geomorphology #geomorphometry #geology #fluvial #riverine #weather #climate #erosion #sediment #sedimentation #DEM #floodplain #terraces #ecsosystems #ecology #sustainable #climatechange #flood #floodrisk #risk #hazard #management #planning #monitoring #migration #engineering #unconfined #rive #channel #metaecosystem #connections #biodiversity #extremeweather
#FYI #PaulBeckwith literature review #economy
(We will have a severe problem much sooner me thinks - like in the coming 5-10 years - because of food insecurity, famines. Last year 40% global crop loss was calculated for 2025 due to weather disasters alone. There's no sense in calculating some imaginary GDP if there's nothing left to eat.)
Just sayin'
Mar. 24, 2025 429.44 ppm
Mar. 24, 2024 426.35 ppm
1 Year Change 3.09 ppm (0.72%)
#FYI #MichaelMann #PBSNewsHour
"EPA said it is reconsidering the scientific finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. This comes as research shows average global temperatures in 2024 likely rose above a 1.5 degree Celsius threshold that for years has been a red line for climate change."
Silencing climate scientists in the US will ulitimately fail, but it couldn't come at a worse time. We must rally around global efforts to maintain progress.
“We have the solutions – but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry,” Rahmstorf added. “Ignoring reality, denying the laws of physics and silencing scientists can only lead to harm, and ordinary people will pay the price for that.”
#extremeWeather
#directAction
#resistance
#climate
#science
#marchForScience
#earthDay
What a great time to dismantle #FEMA, eh?
Storms to erupt over areas of #SouthernUS blasted by #SevereWeather just days ago
More storms will brew over the southern United States this weekend and there is the potential for a few #tornadoes by Sunday.
By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologist
Published Mar 20, 2025
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/storms-to-erupt-over-areas-of-southern-us-blasted-by-severe-weather-just-days-ago/1757573
#BadDOGE #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Trump signs order to shift disaster preparations from Fema to state and local governments
Reuters
Tue 18 Mar 2025 22.12 EDT
“From day one, the Trump administration has been eroding the nation’s capacity to plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters,” Moore told Reuters.
"'They’ve overseen the dismissal of 1,000 Fema staff – who won’t be there to respond to a flood or wildfire – and are withholding funding from local and state governments who are doing risk reduction projects and more.'
"Shana Udvardy, a senior researcher at the #UnionOfConcernedScientists, said she was concerned the order marked 'another dangerous step' that would leave communities with fewer resources to prepare for future disasters.
"'The executive order shifts most of the responsibility for #DisasterPreparedness to state and local governments, asking them to make more expensive infrastructure investments without outlining the federal role in that,” she said."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/trump-executive-order-fema-disaster-preparation
#ExtremeWeather #Polycrisis #USPol #FEMA #WereOnOurOwn
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review
Paul Beckwith on how the accelerating heating will exponentially add energy to tropical storms.
(Appearance of our emotional support Newton, thoroughly cleaning Paul 
- giving us a break to help digest the again bad news... )
« The devastating impacts of the climate crisis reached new heights in 2024, with scores of unprecedented heatwaves, floods and storms across the globe, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. […] The world is already deep into the climate crisis, with the WMO report saying that for the first time, the 10 hottest years on record all occurred in the last decade. However, global carbon emissions have continued to rise, which will bring even worse impacts. […] Dr Davide Faranda, from ClimaMeter, said: “Every fraction of a degree matters. The choices we make today will determine the severity of climate impacts in the years to come.” » https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/19/unprecedented-climate-disasters-extreme-weather-un-report
Greg Cocks 
