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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fluctuating weather
Throughout 2017 and the 2018 so far, weather in the bay area and globally has been increasingly turbulent. In 2017 alone there was 13 named storms, seven became hurricanes and four of the seven reached category three or higher. Weather in the bay area this spring has been oscillating between extremes, from hailing/snowing in mid April, to reaching the high 80's. The increasing heat as a result of climate change causes accelerated evaporation and dryness, but the warming causes rain to come down in heavy downpours. As global warming progresses, weather will become more extreme, and hurricanes could become more frequent. I hope that people affected by the hurricanes directly and indirectly will take climate change more seriously.