The extraordinarily cold, snowy weather that hit parts of the US East Coast and Europe was the result of a collision of two periodic weather patterns in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds. (American Geophysical Union release)
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Outlined in red in this true-color image from July 27, 2010, the Bull Fire produced thick plumes of smoke as it burned near the southern edge of the Sequoia National Forest in southern California.
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Heat waves like those that baked the Northeast in July are likely to be more frequent and more intense in the future, with their effects amplified in densely built urban environments like Manhattan, according to climate scientists.
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