Climate Impact Report – 10/10

Quick Facts

Texas to Florida faces heavy rain as a tropical system brews in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Even though the storm moves rather quickly, it can bring any location rounds of heavier downpours for at least 12 hours.
- The rainfall in parts of Louisiana and Mississippi may help the drought but is unlikely to assist much with low water levels.
On Monday, cars drove through ‘rivers of hail’ after a storm brought downpours to New Mexico.

As of Friday, 27 large active wildfires have burned 334,369 acres across 9 states: OR, CA, LA, AZ, UT, CO, OK, NM, and MI. This year to date, 47,120 wildfires have burned 2,647,217 acres across the country.
In Arizona, 3 fires have burned 19,605 acres as of Friday.
In California, 5 fires have burned 175,553 acres as of Friday.
In Colorado, 1 fire has burned 1,290 as of Friday.
In Louisiana, 3 fires have burned 40,053 acres as of Friday.
In Oregon, 10 fires have burned 93,277 acres as of Friday.

A new study found that billions of people are at risk of temperatures exceeding survivability limits if global temperatures increase by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit or more above current levels.
Phoenix, Arizona, experienced its hottest summer on record with an average temperature of 97 degrees — more than 3 degrees warmer than the 30-year average between 1991 and 2020.
Phoenix, Arizona, also experienced its driest summer on record, recording 0.15 inches of rainfall at Sky Harbor between June 15 and Sept. 30.