2023 in Review: Recapping 2023's unpredictable weather
of the area lots of 30s, lots of 40s out there and even chillier air is on the way later this week, so stick around for details on that. So Mike is looking at the weather in the future, right? With the with the forecast here. But we’re taking a look at some of the weather that we saw in the past. This year we had a lot of extreme weather from coast to coast. Yes Fox’s Caroline Shively takes a look. 2023 marked a year of extreme weather. All of a sudden it started raining real hard. And then,
um, uh, the wind started picking up. January kicking off the new year with a string of tornadoes across the Midwest and South. It went from very calm and quiet to chaos very quickly followed by floods and landslides in California. We know some of the destruction is going to take years to fully recover and rebuild, but we got to not just rebuild. We got to rebuild better. Reporter By February, Texas in the Midwest were experiencing an ice storm as freezing temperatures spread across the northeast. It hit about 3 a.m. and you could hear the you could
hear the trees starting to collapse. Reporter. And in California, a rare blizzard warning was called into effect for parts of Southern California, while snow lovers welcomed the extra powder across other
over the central U.S, leaving more than 17,000 residents without power. And in May, wildfires raged in Alberta, Canada, reducing air quality all the new normal now that wildfire smoke is part of our summer for June started off hot heat waves sweeping across the U.S. before delivering in July. The four hottest days on record. It feels like we’re wearing a blanket, like the heat, the humidity is just sitting on my skin. Summer also kickstarted El Nino, probably the heaviest rain we’ve seen in parts of the area, in a long time. August ushered in extreme heartbreak when
the Hawaiian island of Maui was devastated by a terrible wildfire. Yeah, we stopped by the highway because our houses is right by the highway. But I cannot I cannot kind, I cry. The fires also fueled debate over the cause and the impacts of climate change, particularly as experts credited the extreme heat for the resurgence of malaria cases in the U.S. within population could be at risk of mosquito borne diseases like dengue and malaria. So in a way, we’re seeing a preview of coming blamed Tropical Storm Hilary for prolonging mosquito season in California. We are keeping
an eye on this water level as August rounded out with Idalia, a category three hurricane striking Florida. Flooding is not just a hurricane issue, it is a year round problem in Florida. The northeast got a drenching of its own in September when Tropical Storm Ophelia thrashed the eastern seaboard. Do not enter the water . They’re still going to be riptides and the surface is still going to be rough. There was more rough surf in October when Hurricane Tammy, the seventh of the Atlantic hurricane season, struck the Caribbean. But the storm was short lived, ushering in
a relatively calm November, followed by dramatic flooding and rescue scenes caused by an atmospheric river. At the start is not expected to reach its peak until later this winter, which experts predict could lead to more extreme weather these next several months. In
