In the Northern Hemisphere in 2017 and 2018 brought several destructive hurricanes to the shores of North America, the Caribbean, and throughout the Pacific rim. Such extreme weather events are predicted to get more common and more severe with increasing climate change.
Several participating classes in the ISCFC were or are in the path of these storms and we hope for the best for them, their families and communities.
We would love to hear from students affected directly and indirectly by extreme weather events, and also any students who have been following the news this summer.
What are your thoughts about the connection between climate change and extreme weather events? Has this hurricane season increased your concern about climate change or not? Do you think that US citizens and residents (and others in the region) will take climate change more seriously now?
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Strange Weather Changes in Sacramento
I live in Sacramento and it seems that every day, the weather changes drastically. Like it can be 80 degrees one day and 60 degrees and stormy another day. Could there be any reasons for this?
it usually happens because large air masses move in, like a cold front pushing out warm air or a warm, sunny front replacing cool, cloudy air, also because of the sun heating up the land.
Drastic daily weather changes in Sacramento are primarily due to the city's inland location in the Central Valley, the influence of the nearby Pacific Ocean and coastal mountains, and the dynamic nature of weather fronts and the jet stream.