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A Strong El Niño - What It Can and Cannot Tell Us About The Winter Ahead (opens the original)
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The weather across the northern hemisphere this upcoming winter will be influenced by an ongoing super strong El Niño, a feature in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that will rank among the strongest on record. So, what is El Niño? Why is it important? And how could it impact our winter? These are the questions I'll be looking at for you here. WHAT IS El Niño?El Niño is the warm phase of a naturally occurring ocean-atmosphere climate pattern called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. It devel
Average Temperatures, Anything But-Average Weather - Summer 2026 Recap (opens the original)
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(Compared to the 1991-2020 30 Year Climate Normals) Summer 2026 across eastern New York and western New England was a season of sharp contrasts, with periods of oppressive heat, although the hot and really humid spells were not numerous, severe thunderstorms which were numerous, some wildfire smoke, and a historic rainfall punctuating otherwise fairly seasonable summer weather. All of this occurred in a pattern that was influenced by an increasingly strong El Niño which in the past has historica
Consistently Mild, Occasionally Wild - August 2026's Capital Region Weather Recap (opens the original)
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August 2026 was not a particularly hot month although it did open with several days of high heat and humidity with a couple of truly oppressive days on the 6th, 7th, and 8th when dewpoints soared into the mid 70s and heat indices spiked well into the 90s. But that heat petered out pretty quickly being replaced with consistently warm and moderately muggy air which is typical for August, but with a greater number of noticeably lower humidity days occurring after the 20th. Thunderstorms were a recu
Inside the August 27, 2026 Saratoga County Tornado Event (opens the original)
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Video frame grab of the EF1 (110 mph) Tornado in Wilton - Saratoga County along Ballard Road off of Exit 16 of I-87 - Image by Isaac Ryan (Click Here for Information on the EF Tornado Intensity Scale) View of the Tornado (frame grab from a video) behind the State Police Trooper Barracks in Wilton - Saratoga County - Ballard Road area - Image courtesy of T.J. Clothier NWS Survey Summary: "A tornado touched down west of the Northway in the vicinity of Greylock Drive and Glenburnie Drive. The torna
Cities Are Getting Hotter - And It’s Costing Us More Than Just Comfort (opens the original)
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Climate change is raising the heat across the planet and in cities throughout the world, including Albany, the way we build our communities can raise that heat even more. On a hot summer afternoon a city can feel dramatically different from the surrounding countryside. Roads and parking lots bake in the sunshine while buildings absorb heat. Concrete and pavement then slowly release that stored heat which keeps the temperatures up long after the sun goes down. This is the urban heat island effect
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