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JournoJob alert: Come work with me at CNN Climate & Weather. Must have multimedia skills & be a sharp editor to shepherd and edit weather edutainment stories. This is a great role for the right person. careers.wbd.com/global/en/jo... (You can also be based in DC, NYC etc).

A Super El Niño is coming. Here’s how a hotter ocean could change the weather near you | CNN El Niños happen when water in the tropical Pacific heats up, changing weather patterns all around the world. The hotter the water, the more intense the effects. Models suggest the oncoming El Niño cou...

A Super El Niño is coming. Here's some of the likely impacts it could bring, from drought in Australia to a new hottest year record. www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/w...

A Super El Niño is coming. Here’s how a hotter ocean could change the weather near you | CNN El Niños happen when water in the tropical Pacific heats up, changing weather patterns all around the world. The hotter the water, the more intense the effects. Models suggest the oncoming El Niño cou...

The likelihood of a Super El Niño event this late summer/fall/winter have increased considerably. Here's what it could bring: www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/w...

Fire season fears grow amid western heat wave | CNN The unprecedented heat wave that has roasted the West during the past two weeks has also set the stage for a potentially perilous wildfire season.

“The fact that we’re melting out now, before we even have reached what historically has been the peak snow amount on the ground tells you everything you need to know,” CU Boulder's Jen Kay on the West's alarming wildfire risk. www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/w...

Prominent Researcher Exits NASA, Citing US Attacks on Science Climate expert Kate Marvel pointed to “upheavals” under the Trump administration as a reason for her departure.

Prominent climate researcher Kate Marvel is leaving NASA, citing US attacks on Science
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A top climate scientist just resigned from NASA. Here's why Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges

Thanks to @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for speaking with me this morning about why she decided to leave NASA, the work she was doing, her concerns about federal science and also what gives her hope. 🧪

screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA

My resignation letter

The contract for a critical hurricane evacuation planning tool is about to lapse | CNN The HURREVAC program enables local officials to simulate historical hurricanes as well as conjure synthetic future storms with great detail. They’re losing access to it because of delays in federal ap...

Emergency managers and meteorologists are about to lose access to a critical hurricane decision-making tool, known as HURREVAC, due to a lapsed contract. www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/w...

Analysis: The UN climate report is boring … except when it’s not | CNN For more than 30 years, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization has told us how terrible things are getting with global climate change. Their annual “State of the Climate” report is a com...

"The very fact that these reports feel too routine to cover is a testament to how far climate change has progressed, even just in the past decade. Unfortunately, we’ve built up some immunity to bad news about the climate." www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/c...

Analysis: The UN climate report is boring … except when it’s not | CNN For more than 30 years, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization has told us how terrible things are getting with global climate change. Their annual “State of the Climate” report is a com...

New analysis from me: UN climate assessment presents new info on Earth's growing energy imbalance thanks to record high amounts of climate pollution (chiefly CO2). www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/c...

The US is on the verge of an all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change. | CNN The impending US heat record is an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening.

New study finds the current heat wave in the West would be "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate pollution. We're on the verge of breaking an all-time March heat record for the US today/tmrw. www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/w...

Map of the Lower 48 states showing a heat dome covering the Western U.S. in reddish, orange hues. The dome extends across the entire region.

"Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature records for April before that month has even begun." www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/w...

El Niño could be here soon, bringing wild weather and a hotter climate | CNN There are increasing indications El Niño is likely to form and strengthen into potentially a significant event during the next several months, throwing weather patterns worldwide out of whack and incr...

NOAA issues an El Niño Watch, indicating conditions are favorable for it to develop during the next 6 months. More details (updated story), including info on its potential far-ranging impacts and intensity: www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/w...

Early signs of the formation of a potentially strong El Niño in the tropical Pacific have forecasters on edge. El Niño shifts weather patterns globally, increases global avg. temperatures and affects the Atlantic hurricane season. Stay tuned... www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/w... [NOAA img]

El Niño could be here soon, bringing wild weather and a hotter climate | CNN There are increasing indications El Niño is likely to form and strengthen into potentially a significant event during the next several months, throwing weather patterns worldwide out of whack and incr...

There are increasing signs that an El Niño, potentially an intense one, may develop in or by the Fall. This would cause global average temperatures to spike and shift global weather patterns. Uncertainty about such an event and its intensity is still significant, though. www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/w...

This weird winter was one of the warmest — and coldest — on record. It’s a glimpse of our future | CNN The Lower 48 states’ split screen winter — a battle between frigid cold in the East and record warmth in the West — ended in the second warmest winter on record. It’s an astonishing demonstration of h...

If you live in the eastern US like me you probably think this was one of the US' coldest winters on record. You'd be sorely mistaken. The record warmth out West overwhelmed the cold in the East during meteorological winter (Dec-Feb). www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/c...

From maybe to monster: Forecast chaos turned into blizzard clarity in less than 48 hours | CNN Forecasters were fighting an uphill battle to message this historic winter storm.

My analysis of the fraught forecast for the ongoing blizzard, and the communications/public safety challenges it presented: www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/w...

From maybe to monster: Forecast chaos turned into blizzard clarity in less than 48 hours | CNN Forecasters were fighting an uphill battle to message this historic winter storm.

"Rarely does such a powerful, blockbuster winter storm nearly sneak up on the most populous urban corridor in the US."
www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/w...

It’s T-48 hours until a potentially blockbuster Northeast snow storm, and forecast models couldn’t be farther apart | CNN What are meteorologists supposed to do when the models they rely on disagree so sharply? And how should you interpret the forecast?

Analysis: It's T-48 hours until a potential snowstorm along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coast, yet forecasters are struggling with some epic computer model disagreements. I take you behind the scenes to explain what's going on: www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/w...

Global warming forced scientists to change the way they look at El Niño | CNN The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

Climate change has spurred scientists to come up with a new way of detecting and monitoring El Niño and La Niña, as the waters of the tropical Pacific rapidly warm. www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/w...

Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather research center | CNN A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.

New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...

In just 25 years, dozens of places will be too warm to host the Winter Olympics | CNN As humans continue to burn planet-heating fossil fuels, winter is changing: Snowfall is declining, snowpack is shrinking and temperatures are rising in many places. For those who rely on snow for thei...

“To have (skiing) go from something my kids could do any day of the week in wintertime… to something that is much more rare and variable is a real tragedy..." On declining snowfall and the winter Olympics, via @laurapaddison.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/c...

Split screen nation: East has been frigid, while the West set hot temperature records. But it’s about to change | CNN The US is a nation divided, with frigid conditions, snow and ice entrenched east of the Rockies all the way into Florida, and record warmth and paltry snowfall in the West.

The East has been stuck in a long-duration cold snap lasting weeks on end, while the West has its worst snowpack in decades. The pattern that has led to this dichotomy is about to change: www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/w...

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

“This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.”
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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

Forecast models are predicting a bomb cyclone off the East Coast this weekend. Here are the scenarios | CNN Another major winter storm is taking shape a week after one brought much of the US to its knees. Here’s what we know now

The latest on the weekend storm threat, from a team effort at CNN Weather.
TL;DR: The snow threat is real for this weekend, details not yet clear, but if you live anywhere from the coastal Carolinas to Boston, you should be paying attention to forecasts the next few days www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/w...

How this brutal winter storm is possible with climate change – and possibly even more likely | CNN The frigid temperatures, massive snow and deadly ice storm occurring east of the Rockies might seem to conflict with life on a rapidly warming planet. But all of these things still happen, even with c...

Just gonna drop this here after that POTUS social post. On the topic of the cold and winter storm's relationship to global warming: www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/c...

How this brutal winter storm is possible with climate change – and possibly even more likely | CNN The frigid temperatures, massive snow and deadly ice storm occurring east of the Rockies might seem to conflict with life on a rapidly warming planet. But all of these things still happen, even with c...

How is this winter storm and brutal cold blast even possible in a warming climate? Paradoxically, the ingredients for this event may be more likely at least in part due to climate change... www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/c...

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

Trump wants to slash funding for federal climate and weather research. Congress is about to tell him ‘No’ | CNN Congress is poised to reject President Donald Trump’s “astounding” proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as well as NASA’s Earth science programs.

A funny thing has happened on the way to Trump's gutting of America's climate and weather research budgets (NOAA/NASA)... Congress is about to say no. www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/c...