William F. Bunting, the meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service's forecast office in Fort Worth, was skeptical that CASA would improve tornado warning lead times, but he said that its improved rainfall estimation would help predict flash floods, the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.
Heat waves are already the top cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S., and that will only get worse.
Heat already is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States, according to the report, and climate change will bring more.
In the United States, for example, heat ranks as the leading cause of weather-related mortality.
In fact, heat waves are the biggest cause of weather-related fatalities in many cities, responsible for more deaths annually than any other form of extreme weather [ Luber and McGeehin 2008; World Health Organization (WHO) 2009a].
Heat waves, commonly defined as a few consecutive days with high temperature above a certain threshold, are the leading cause of weather-related mortality in the United States (Davis et al. 2003).
NOAA does finance research to understand the causes of weather extremes, as do the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
The underlying causes of weather phenomena (sporadic E layers, intermediate layers, and equatorial electrojet) can be traced to the propagation of tides and gravity waves from the lower atmosphere.
Their more immediate bread-and-butter work relates to weather forecasting-answers to causes of weather disturbances that will lead them to long-range weather predictions The program started in Washington, in 1958, but in '61, he persuaded his bosses in NASA to transfer it to N.Y. because there are more universities here.
