New York City now has the worst air quality of any city on Earth.
If exposed to the current air quality in NYC for 24 hours, it would be equivalent to smoking about 6 cigarettes.
Colin McCarthy
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Colin McCarthy
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Tracking Extreme Weather, Natural Disasters & Climate Worldwide, Storm Chaser | @ucdavisCAES Contact: [email protected]
- This footage from inside the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa might be the most jaw-dropping video ever captured of a hurricane’s eye, showcasing the infamous “stadium effect."
- Tonga's Hunga Tonga volcano just had one of the most violent volcano eruptions ever captured on satellite.
GIF - 12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United plane traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history forced a nationwide ground stop of the three airlines.
00:00 - An unusually large eruption of one of Yellowstone’s geysers occurred at Biscuit Basin moments ago. x.com/NomisRensiew/s…
- The storm surge is so powerful from #HurricaneIan that it has brought a shark into the city streets of Fort Myers. 🎥@BradHabuda
- Orchard Park, home of the @BuffaloBills, has seen 66 inches of snow in the last 24 hours! This is the highest 24-hour snow total ever recorded in New York state. 📸: @BuffaloBills
- Hurricane Milton is undergoing one of the fastest rapid intensifications ever observed in the Atlantic. It is now a 155 mph Category 4 storm, just 2 mph shy of Category 5 status. Not a single weather model predicted the storm would strengthen this quickly.
00:00 - California's Sierra Nevada range 80 days ago versus today. These mountains likely currently hold the biggest snowpack on the planet.
GIF - Hard to comprehend the scale of the flood disaster in Pakistan, the 5th most populated nation in the world. Nearly 1400 dead, 1 million houses damaged or destroyed, and 50,000,000 people displaced. 1/3 of the country is underwater.
- Death Valley, the hottest and driest place in the US just saw the 4th 1-in-1,000 year rain event in less than 2 weeks in the US. 3/4 of Death Valley’s annual rainfall fell in 3 hours.
- Someone just flew through the eye of Category 4 Hurricane Helene in a private jet.
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextAccording to Flightradar24 themselves, the private jet flew above the eye of the storm at an altitude of 45,000, rather than threw the storm as the post suggests. x.com/flightradar24/… - This week tens of millions of Americans are about to experience one of the coldest days of their life. Wind chills as cold as -70F in Wyoming and Montana, negative wind chills as far south Austin, Texas, and even single-digit wind chills in the Florida Panhandle. Deadly cold.
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