Dr. Jeff Masters
Extreme weather and climate change expert writing for Yale Climate Connections. Co-founder, Weather Underground; former hurricane hunter.
- The only winners: water lawyers. One of the lowest runoff totals in the last 35 years is forecast, as April watershed precip was 60% of average. "Hydrological conditions are starting to mirror the frightful years of 2020-22, when meagre runoff sent the reservoirs into a deep plunge to record lows."
- VERY bad projection for Colorado River runoff this year, putting the basin deeper into hydrological - and political - crisis. The current estimate is runoff will be 55% of normal. And the major reservoirs (Mead and Powell) are already only 33% of normal. #water www.circleofblue.org/2025/supply/...
- A major loss to our understanding of how extreme weather events are affecting us. There are 3 alternative databases I will be using: Gallagher Re: www.ajg.com/gallagherre/... Aon: img.clients.aonunited.com/Web/Aon5/%7B... EM-DAT: www.emdat.be
- NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
