Weather & Climate

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, left, joins youths from Portugal during a demonstration outside the European Court of Human Rights Tuesday, April 9, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. Europe’s highest human rights court will rule Tuesday on a group of landmark climate change cases aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The European Court of Human Rights will hand down decisions in a trio of cases brought by a French mayor, six Portuguese youngsters and more than 2,000 elderly Swiss women who say their governments are not doing enough to combat climate change.

Verdict saying Switzerland violated rights by failing on climate action could ripple across Europe

April 9, 2024, 3:47pm Nation & World

Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change, siding with a group of older Swiss women against their government in a landmark ruling that could have implications across the continent. Read story

FILE - A group of students from Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi, dance and sing as they enjoy spring break on South Beach, Friday, March 15, 2024, in Miami Beach, Fla. Another month, another heat record for the planet. Earth just had its warmest March ever recorded, the 10th month in a row to set such a record, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.

Broken record: March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say

April 9, 2024, 8:24am Latest News

For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat — with both air temperatures and the world’s oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Gray skies obscure our partial view of total eclipse

April 9, 2024, 6:01am Clark County News

The weather played such a key role in Monday’s total eclipse in the midsection of our country. There were plenty of clouds from Texas northward, but nature scored again, and clouds thinned in many areas allowing an awesome view of the big event. The skies went from day to night… Read story

Ida Cartlidge, second from left, holds her youngest son Nolan while sitting with sons Amarii and Jakavien, right, on Nov. 29, 2023, in the middle of their two-bed motel room that serves as their temporary residence after a deadly tornado destroyed their home in March. The Cartlidge family of five spent nearly a year in the cramped motel room in search of a more permanent home, like many of their displaced neighbors. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

As a Mississippi town reels from a devastating tornado, a displaced family finds its way home

April 8, 2024, 1:10pm Nation & World

As a deadly tornado barreled toward their home in the Mississippi Delta, Ida Cartlidge only had time to scoop up her 1-year-old son, Nolan, and hold him close. Read story

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again

April 8, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read story

Cleanup begins as spring nor’easter moves on. But hundreds of thousands still lack power

A portion of Route 9 between Falmouth and Cumberland is closed as crews work to remove a downed tree spanning the snow-covered roadway in Falmouth, Maine, Thursday, April 4, 2024, following a spring snowstorm.

April 5, 2024, 7:52am Nation & World

Snow showers lingered Friday as the cleanup began following a major spring storm that brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast, left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power, and contributed to at least two deaths. Read story

April nor’easter with heavy, wet snow bears down on Northeast, causing more than 680,000 outages

A pedestrian walks through downtown Boston during a rain storm, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. A nor'easter has brought heavy wind, rain and snow to New England. (AP Photo/Robert F.

April 4, 2024, 9:09am Nation & World

A major spring storm brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast late Wednesday and Thursday, causing more than 680,000 power outages across the region with the majority in Maine and New Hampshire. A woman was reported killed by a falling tree in a New York City suburb. Read story