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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Odd Weather in Sacramento
Hello, I am from Sacramento, California. I would like to note the extremely odd year round weather. Weather in spring has been hot, weather in summer has been cloudy and lukewarm with some hotter days, weather in fall has been sunny with rain every now and then, and winter has many big rains, causing things like houses and lightpoles to fall down. I would also like to state that pomograntes in my house that usually start to grow in october have started growing in july (They still grow in october, just in between those two months as well). I'm pretty sure because of global warming the weather has been strange.
I agree with Maeha, I am also from Sacramento, California. It has been quite uncanny this year with the weather changes. In the summer it's been either intensely hot or just cloudy, during spring it's been hot with rain once every week or two. In the fall it was hot during the start and slowly it started cooling down with some random hot days. It rains almost every week around the end of fall. And in winter its either super cold or rain occurs frequently every week.