4 digests on climate.
A named late-season Atlantic system is tracking toward the Southeast. The headline wind numbers will move. The more durable risk, forecasters keep repeating, is rain after landfall.
· National Hurricane Center, NOAA, The Washington Post
The Milano Cortina Winter Games opened to strong Italian crowds and thinner natural snow than organizers advertised in 2019. The sport story is familiar. The weather story is not going away.
· Reuters, The Associated Press, The Guardian
A late-August heat dome stressed several regional grids without producing a cascading blackout. Household power bills, especially in markets with real-time pricing, did the damage instead.
· U.S. Energy Information Administration, Canary Media, The Wall Street Journal
Last December’s climate summit produced a headline number for adaptation and loss-and-damage finance. Nine months later, the argument is about disbursement, not the press conference.
· UNFCCC, Carbon Brief, The Economist
