The last few days (really months) have been very intense and a large part of the earth based disruptions are from weather. From fires in California or flooding in Utah (just sticking to USA) the driving factor in many of the large now multi-jurstritional incidents -- are weather driven and some of these are further influenced from Space Weather*. For now let's just look at the Jet stream and it's wide ride over this last week.
The Weather Channel - 9 hours ago
WIRED - 17 hours ago
Sure the Jet Stream is but one data point , however this wide divergence in it (Sept 14- 16th ) is very unusual, while I don't regularly follow the Jet Stream in detail I do keep on eye on it enough to have noticed the dip on the 14th. And, from my local weather to the number of large scale disasters unfolding that I and others in the Digital Humanitarian Network are monitoring this was something that just stuck out.
It also reminded me that better use of weather data in dashboards offered to Emergency Managers and public with a UI that presented what is often complex and dispersed information into a uniform an informative tool would be very helpful during emergency instead of after them reflected upon in a blog post. As well as some experts in weather need to be injected into EMA and SMEM conversations.
There's never enough good data....
*Space Weather is what comes from outside our atmosphere
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