Extremes are exciting to track, but they also give us perspective. Assistant State Climatologist Becky Bolinger says that tracking extremes is important for several reasons. (Denver Post)
As global warming remakes conditions at the top of the world, lightning inches closer to the North Pole. (Bloomberg)
These four articles from The Conversation’s archives explain how tornadoes form, why night tornadoes are more deadly, and how in rare cases thunderstorms can take a different but equally destructive form – a derecho.
Four CSU researchers will interpret NASA data for public benefit as part of NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team.
“We’ve had three summers in a row with a failed monsoon in western Colorado and also very hot conditions,” said state climatologist Russ Schumacher. (Denver CBS 4)
The research team believes there's a lack of communication about smoke from distant wildfires.
The year 2020 is going to be remembered for a lot of things, many of them not so good. Included in the not-so-good list is the drought that has plagued the West, lasting into 2021. (Washington Post)
Early in the pandemic, a CSU team set out to quantify the dynamics of how aerosols like viruses travel from one person to another, under different circumstances.
“The droughts that we are seeing are becoming that much more severe because of the temperature component, they’re warmer,” Colorado assistant state climatologist Becky Bolinger said. (KNPR/NPR)
CSU faculty members Melissa Burt and Emily Fischer speak with Colorado Public Radio about the Science Moms campaign.