Michael Rawlins

Water, energy, carbon cycles; Arctic environments. Climate System Research Center @UMassGeo @UMassAmherst

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Moreover, the recent wet weather, including the past 12 months, has been characterized by a large number of extreme events. Of course, this element of climate change is an expected manifestation of warming.

[New England Public Media @nepublicmedia]

Parts of New England have had some of the wettest weather on record from December through the end of March. The beginning of April brought more rain and snow.

https://t.co/ip1Ddn7tis

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Hat tip to the Environmental System Science program.
Want to know more about the study?
https://t.co/BeEBrJ6G3Q

[DOE Office of Science @doescience]

How will the Arctic look in 80 years? Researchers @UMassAmherst combined satellite data, field observations, & modeling to answer how climate change will affect 22.45 million square km. They produced the most detailed view yet of a possible future: https://t.co/2pkU9SEwXf

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Icy conditions likely a result of more winter days above freezing. NWS data for nearby North Conway.

Yet another impact--in this case tragic--of our warming climate.

[The Weather Channel @weatherchannel]

Tragic news on Mount Washington: https://t.co/eJL6vd7B9d

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

A bit breezy up there today

[Eric Fisher @ericfisher]

I was supposed to go up Mt Washington today. It was postponed for good reason!

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Accumulated precipitation at Worcester since Dec 1 is wettest on record. Data since 1891.

[Mark Matthews @markthefoamguy]

@WX1BOX @KevinBoston25 @jreineron7 @ericfisher 1.4" storm total in Dudley, MA 5.9" month-to-date - very wet start to March!

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Per NOAA NCEI, the 2023–24 winter season ranked warmest on record for the contiguous U.S. with eight states across the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast each observing their warmest winter on record. Northeast U.S. also had its warmest winter.
https://t.co/TZcOU8aUDL

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Southern New England experienced warm, wet winter, climate researchers say https://t.co/9IFm3dC0Sh

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Arctic river are and will continue to see effects of warming, permafrost thaw, and water cycle intensification.

Take home: More river runoff in the far north where more where soil carbon exists. Increasing river flows could freshen the North Atlantic.
@EuroGeosciences #climate

[The Cryosphere @EGU_TC]

New #EGUhighlights: Regime shifts in Arctic terrestrial hydrology manifested from impacts of climate warming https://t.co/Ff0Wj9CEpF

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Amherst MA just experienced its warmest meteorological (Dec-Feb) winter over the official period of record since 1893. BUT... data for the area extend to 1836. Winters have warmed by 4.4 F over those 188 years. And it was very wet too! @UMassAmherst @UMassScience @UMassGeo

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

@WeatherProf @Climatologist49 The tool used to do ranks based on full period of record. Some stations have a threaded record for sites in the location region. I just sent an email to the climate perspectives contact. This is an unfortunate bug or recent change.

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

@ericfisher On the heels of a near record warm and wet meteorological winter. Check your sump pump if you rely on one.

[Sabrina Shankman @shankman]

“I wanted to go sledding and it’s really hard to go sledding without any snow," a 6-year-old in Dorchester told me. As the planet warms, that disappointment has become a recurring theme — and one that’s expected to increase in the future.
https://t.co/Tik3l29x3f

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

Our statement:

[Dusty Christensen @dustyc123]

Climate data from 2023 confirms what we in western Massachusetts experienced firsthand last year amid heat waves & catastrophic floods: the year was one of the hottest & rainiest ever recorded in the region. My latest on local impacts of the #ClimateCrisis:https://t.co/ILplLg6S4k

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Smart piece on how this latest extreme weather anomaly fits with our understanding of manifestations of a warming climate. Impacts of hydrological cycle intensification are wreaking havoc in many parts of the world this year: Las Vegas, Libya, Greece, Brazil to name a few.

[Sabrina Shankman @shankman]

After 11" of rain fell in Leominster in just a few hours—and as Hurricane Lee churned in an anomalously warm Atlantic Ocean—I asked one climate scientist if this is our new normal. "I don’t think we know what normal is anymore," he said. https://t.co/Knt2JeWuNG via @BostonGlobe

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

Members of our Beaufort Lagoons team wrapping up sampling of rivers near Prudhoe Bay, including the USGS-gauged Sagavanirktok and Kuparuk, and a small stream 8 km from the coast. Today heading south to foothills of Brooks Range. https://t.co/QSRWwULWlF @polargriffin @hardisonlab

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

@DrShepherd2013 Agree likely to come. Right now Zuckerberg et al are primarily interested in mobile app downloads. My days of looking at tiny screens is rapidly coming to a close...

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

@DrShepherd2013 Need a web browser version to be broadly embraced.

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

For the Northeast U.S., both May (-1.7 F) and June (-3.3 F) were colder than normal. The last time that consecutive months were colder than normal was three years ago, during April & May 2020.

[Michael Rawlins @MichaelARawlins]

North America had a record-warm May. The temperature anomaly was 2.4 C above the 1901-2000 average.

[NOAA NCEI @NOAANCEI]

Find more information about the May 2023 U.S. Climate Report, including individual state and county information, as well as downloadable maps: https://t.co/P5CoxcUamy #StateofClimate @NOAA