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The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) reported that "climate change poses significant risks to Nebraska's economy, environment and citizens". [1] This view is expanded upon by the United States Environmental Protection Agency: "Nebraska's climate is changing. In the past century, most of the state has warmed by at least one degree (F).
Residents of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, have been experiencing weather whiplash. While it snowed Monday, temperatures were up into the 90s just 10 days prior, and they were in the mid-70s last week.
Nebraska is one of only two states that divide electoral college votes by district, and is not winner-take-all. [18] Nebraska is composed of two major land regions: the Dissected Till Plains and the Great Plains. The Dissected Till Plains region consists of gently rolling hills and contains the state's largest cities, Omaha and Lincoln.
On May 5, 1964, a violent and long-tracked tornado most commonly known as the Bradshaw tornado struck Adams, Clay, Hamilton, York, Polk, and Antelope Counties in Nebraska. [1] [3] The damage in the village of Bradshaw was extreme enough that the National Weather Service assigned a Fujita scale rating of F5 to the tornado. [4] [3]
The National Weather Service had received at least 60 reports of tornadoes in at least five states as of 9:30 p.m. ET, making today the busiest day for tornadoes in the US in more than a year.
Kimball, like much of western Nebraska, has a climate on the border between humid continental (Köppen Dfa/Dfb/Dwa/Dwb) and cool semi-arid (BSk). The climate is characterised by cold and extremely variable winters that can range from quite warm days due to chinook winds to bitter cold under the influence of Arctic air from Canada. Spring is ...
Supercells moving through eastern Nebraska and western Iowa on April 26. A significant severe weather event was predicted to occur on the afternoon of April 26. The event was first forecasted to occur on April 20, when a 15% risk area was issued across much of the south-central United States by the Storm Prediction Center for April 26. [4]
Much of the area was a scrub desert, with desert-like conditions extending to several other states. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Current global warming may make the grassland climate more unstable, giving way to desert given more fires, mild drought and erosion; UCAR simulations based on evapotranspiration support a Palmer Drought Index lower than -15, many ...