It’s being caused by greenhouse gas-fueled global warming, which has disrupted weather patterns and intensified the drought that has gripped large parts of the West and Southwest for nearly 20 years. Family physician Justin Adams told the AP that he worried that some of his patients would suffer long-term health effects due to the problem. Las Vegas is reeling Friday, a day after an intense windstorm blew into the area, causing widespread power outages, toppling semi-trucks, ripping off roofs and injuring at least one person. The Inter-Tropical Conversion Zone is a series of windless waters around the equator where ships would often get stuck—sailors referred to the area as the doldrums. These are good moves. In the Las Vegas Valley, we know all too well what it’s like to live with wildfire smoke. pic.twitter.com/9B1DaOWz2r, The backyard. Some people might assume that “partly cloudy” and “partly sunny” are different ways to say the same thing, and they’d be right. The National Weather Service posted an image of a massive cloud of dust that formed in Las Vegas Valley Thursday evening. A dust storm warning has been issued until 11 pm local time with a wind range up to 70 mph (110km/h). [Pictured: A vector illustration of a barometer which measures atmospheric pressure in inches of mercury].
Freezing rain is formed through the same general process that creates sleet, but they’re not the same thing.
Jet streams are thin but intense winds in the highest reaches of the atmosphere. Red flag warnings advise residents to take action like being careful with open flames.
Sleet falls to the ground as ice. In order to earn the harshest classification in winter weather, a storm must meet three criteria. Engineers have to consider wind shear when designing skyscrapers and other tall structures. This is an alarming development, and it adds to the urgency to address climate change. Droughts are among the most destructive forces in nature—only hurricanes are more economically damaging to the United States. Ball lightning is a floating, colorized sphere of energy that spins off from thunderstorms and sometimes crashes through windows with deadly results—it appears to be attracted to ions that accumulate on glass. Extreme fire behavior is the most severe, warning that fires are burning and likely to rage out of control. The phenomenon occurs when significant storms cause an abnormal rise in seawater above the limits of the astronomical tide. Sleet graces the world with its presence when rain or melted snow freezes and turns into ice on its way from the sky to the ground. Comparable to the Dust Bowl days, the smoke will spread farther and farther as more of it is produced. Heat waves are long periods of abnormally warm weather.
In many cases, flash floods—which can roll cars and destroy houses—happen in the immediate aftermath of extended droughts where parched land can’t absorb the influx of water quickly enough. #VegasWind#8NNpic.twitter.com/VJIirgSjxD, Tree down @ Kenyon Place & Pinto Lane. Without them, in fact, the situation threatens to spiral — smoke from wildfires can and will cancel out air quality gains from declines in coal-fired power generation, proliferation of electric vehicles and other measures that are reducing greenhouse gases. Inch of mercury is a unit used to measure air pressure. The adverse weather is also causing heavy traffic in the area, where the debris is preventing motorists from driving. There are garden-variety thunderstorms and severe thunderstorms, and when meteorologists mention the latter, the public should take it seriously. Ice storms are extended episodes of freezing rain, which occurs when precipitation falls in liquid form and freezes on contact. In a recent story about the situation, the Associated Press focused on Ashland, Ore., a small community in the southern part of the state. Nor’easters are major, dangerous storms that are exclusive to the Northeastern United States. Even today, the shipping industry relies on these intense and predictable winds. Although they’re small geographically, horse latitudes play a major role in global weather, steering prevailing winds like trade winds and westerlies. Officials have urged the public to stay indoors until the storm passes. Also known as the “feels-like” temperature, wind chill represents how cold the weather feels on human skin when the chilling effect of the wind is taken into consideration. “It was essentially like they’d started smoking again for two months,” he said. Details https://t.co/Ow5JqvgBfa#vegas#DTLVpic.twitter.com/YJFIUxbvwp. Unlike sleet, which is ice formed by rain falling through very cold air, hail is a much more dangerous phenomenon associated with much more dangerous weather. Amy Graff is a digital editor for SFGATE.
Humans inhabit the very bottom of the Earth’s atmosphere and everything above creates atmospheric pressure.
A polar vortex occurs when a large section of very cold air, usually the coldest in the entire northern hemisphere, is pushed down the North American continent as far south as the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. Breezy conditions involve air moving between 12 and 22 mph during pleasant conditions. Both phenomena, which are measured with electronic sensors called barometers, are critical to predicting weather events like precipitation. Ashland, which is the home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and refers to itself as “Cultureland,” had to cancel more than two dozen outdoor performances because of the smoke. The dust kicked up over the Jean Dry Lake Beds and moved north sweeping through parts of Henderson and reaching the southern edge of Las Vegas.
#vegasweather#nvwx, Monte Carlo roof collapses inside casino! © Las Vegas Sun, 2020, All Rights Reserved, Columnists - local and syndicated writers. One of the more unpleasant precipitation events associated with winter is sleet, which stings the skin and turns roads and sidewalks into ice-skating rinks. Official peak wind at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas was 60 mph. Most people know that droughts result from an extended lack of precipitation and abnormally high temperatures, but overpopulation and land overuse are contributing factors, too. Meteorologists commonly refer to fronts, which exists between two large bodies of air that each exhibit similar temperature and moisture conditions. The Las Vegas Review-Journal referred to it as a “wall of dust.”. Warm fronts describe the opposite effect. Blizzards have frequent wind gusts of at least 35 mph, they have sustained falling or blowing snow that reduces visibility to less than a quarter-mile, and the storm maintains those conditions for at least three consecutive hours. For people who suffer from respiratory issues, wildfire smoke is a potentially lethal threat that can trigger severe breathing problems. #vegaswindspic.twitter.com/EouS2hMYmv.
Given the regressive, destructive climate policies of the current presidential administration, action at the state and local levels is critical. Meteorologists issue precautions to inform residents about the likelihood of serious and fast-moving weather events like tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. It represents how hot the temperature actually feels when humidity is considered. Two words that cold-weather commuters never want to hear are “wintry mix.” When precipitation travels through an above-freezing “warm” layer of air followed by a cold, below-freezing layer, it’s possible for snow, sleet, and freezing rain to fall simultaneously. High-pressure systems form when downward pressure creates a clockwise air rotation, unlike low-pressure systems, which generate counter-clockwise rotation. Southern Nevada, unfortunately, is in the thick of the problem areas. Relative humidity is closely related to dew point, but the two terms are not interchangeable. Abandoned mountain lion cub rescued from Zogg Fire.
Ice storms, which can be deadly and cause a lasting impact, can add 500 pounds to the weight of power lines and increase the weight of tree limbs by a multiplier of 30. Car accidents are the leading cause of winter-related fatalities, so when a meteorologist warns about the potential for black ice, drivers should take it seriously. Highest gust since 3/6/2012. Fire weather watches are a step up, warning people that fire conditions are possible, but not imminent. In order to qualify as a heat wave, it must last for at least two days and consist of temperatures that are outside the region’s historical average. And for everyone, it makes being outdoors unpleasant.
Storm surges can cause rapid, significant, and deadly flooding in coastal regions. It’s common to hear meteorologists warn that storm surge is one of the deadliest and most dangerous parts of major weather events like hurricanes. Weather professionals use specific terminology to describe rivers as they rise from excess water. Images from the gambling capital of the world show power poles damaged in the vicinity of the famed Las Vegas Strip, lined with its world famous casinos. High winds are being blamed for multiple scattered power outages affecting some 44,000 NV Energy customers in the Las Vegas area, local media reports. Hail forms when powerful updrafts inside of thunderstorms force water well above the freezing level. Everyone in America above a certain latitude knows there are two temperatures they have to consider when getting dressed in the morning in winter—the actual temperature reading and the one that counts: the wind chill factor. According to the National Weather Service, both terms refer to opaque cloud coverage between three-eighths to five-eighths.