Lakeland Florida (centrally located)
1981-2010 Avg May Rainfall 3.4 inches
2018 Total May Rainfall 18 inches

Florida's drenching May drowns a rain record more than a century old
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/article212659654.html

*New Report By Public Citizen Documents Corporate Media's Widespread Failure to Cover Link Between Climate Crisis & Extreme Weather* By Julia Conley, Common Dreams, Fri., July 27, 2018.

- By not providing context for heatwaves, droughts, flooding, and wildfires, the news media is contributing to climate-related complacency, report finds -

Bolstering observations made by at least one media critic this week, Public Citizen showed in a new report on Friday that news reports largely ignore the link between the climate crisis and the extreme heat that is currently enveloping cities and regions all over the world. The consumer advocacy group's report (pdf), "Extreme Silence," found that from January 1 to July 8, only about seven percent of cable news reports on record high temperatures mentioned the climate crisis. Meanwhile, less than a fifth of such reports in the top 50 most-read American newspapers addressed climate change.

"Climate change is already harming Americans, and soon it will pose an existential threat," David Arkush, managing director of Public Citizen's climate program, said in a statement. "But most Americans still think of the problem as distant, hurting people long in the future or in faraway places. The media's failure to cover climate has a big role in that complacency. We need much better reporting if the public is going to wake up and demand action in time to prevent catastrophe."
A poll conducted by Gallup earlier this year found that only 45 percent of Americans think the climate crisis would have an impact on them or their communities in their lifetime. In fact, research shows that the warming earth and resulting sea level rise has already forced at least 17 American communities from their homes.

More Americans may understand the urgency of the situation if major newspapers and news programs discussed the leading cause of extreme weather while reporting on heatwaves, hurricanes, droughts, and wildfires, argued Public Citizen in its report. "This review identified some notable exceptions and models how best to cover climate in the context of extreme heat events," reads the report. "Overall, however, U.S. news outlets continue to tell only half the story. These exceptions need to become the norm if the public is going to wake from its slumber on climate change in time to take the bold action we urgently need to avoid catastrophic harm, and possibly even an existential threat to the U.S., later this century."
Out of 760 climate and weather-related articles in major publications since the beginning of the year, just 134 also addressed the climate crisis. Ten of the 50 newspapers with the highest circulation—including the Tampa Bay Times and the Detroit Free Press—have yet to mention climate change at all this year. -Read More...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/27/new-report-documents-corporate-medias-widespread-failure-cover-link-between-climate



Only about seven percent of cable news reports about extreme weather this year have mentioned a leading cause of the events: the climate crisis. (Image: Public Citizen)

Every day for 15 days 90+ and usually 95.

It was that way for like 5 days in a row before I arrived...and before that was the crazy rain.

yet another to live it. Glad you survived!

Thanks for the thread appalachiablue

Our Imbecile in Chief said climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese...

I believe him because he's a stable genius with all the best words. And he tells the truth.

And if you don't know this is then you qualify as a deplorable incapable of independent thought.

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- New York Magazine, "How Did The End Of The World Become Old News?' July 26, 2018

..Last July, I wrote a much-talked-over magazine cover story considering the worst-case scenarios for climate change — much talked over, in part, because it was so terrifying, which made some of the scenarios a bit hard to believe. Those worst-case scenarios are still quite unlikely, since they require both that we do nothing to alter our emissions path, which is still arcing upward, and that those unabated emissions bring us to climate outcomes on the far end of what’s possible by 2100.

But, this July, we already seem much farther along on those paths than even the most alarmist climate observers- e.g., me- would have predicted a year ago. In a single week earlier this month, dozens of places around the world were hit with record temperatures in what was, effectively, an unprecedented, planet-encompassing heat wave: from Denver to Burlington to Ottawa; from Glasgow to Shannon to Belfast; from Tbilisi, in Georgia, and Yerevan, in Armenia, to whole swaths of southern Russia..

In other words, it has been a month of historic, even unprecedented, climate horrors. But you may not have noticed, if you are anything but the most discriminating consumer of news. The major networks aired 127 segments on the unprecedented July heat wave, Media Matters usefully tabulated, and only one so much as mentioned climate change. The New York Times has done admirable work on global warming over the last year, launching a new climate desk and devoting tremendous resources to high-production-value special climate “features.” But even their original story on the wildfires in Greece made no mention of climate change - after some criticism on Twitter, they added a reference.

Over the last few days, there has been a flurry of chatter among climate writers and climate scientists, and the climate-curious who follow them, about this failure. In perhaps the most widely parsed and debated Twitter exchange, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes - whose show, All In, has distinguished itself with the seriousness of its climate coverage - described the dilemma facing every well-intentioned person in his spot: the transformation of the planet and the degradation may be the biggest and most important story of our time, indeed of all time, but on television, at least, it has nevertheless proven, so far, a “palpable ratings killer.”

All of which raises a very dispiriting possibility, considering the scale of the climate crisis: Has the end of the world as we know it become, already, old news?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/climate-change-wildfires-heatwave-media-old-news-end-of-the-world.html

"..If so, that would be really, really bad. As I’ve written before, and as Wen Stephenson echoed more recently in The Baffler, climate change is not a matter of “yes” or “no,” not a binary process where we end up either “fucked” or “not fucked.” It is a system that gets worse over time as long as we continue to emit greenhouse gases.

We are just beginning to see the horrors that climate change has in store for us- but that does not mean that the story is settled. Things will get worse, almost certainly much, much worse.

Indeed, the news about what more to expect, coming out of new research, only darkens our picture of what to expect:

>Just over the past few weeks, new studies have suggested heat in many major Indian cities would be literally lethal by century’s end, if current warming trends continue, and that, by that time, global economic output could fall, thanks to climate effects, by 30 percent or more. That is an impact twice as deep as the global Great Depression, and it would not be temporary."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/climate-change-wildfires-heatwave-media-old-news-end-of-the-world.html

She, her mom and her dogs evacuated to aunt's house, then had to evacuate again.

All the best from DU; what an experience they've had there.

I hope she's well.