Richard B. Rood | The Conversation

Richard B. (Ricky) Rood is Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan.

Energy & Environment

Diagnosing ‘warming winter syndrome’ as summerlike heat sweeps into central and eastern US

Richard B. Rood | The Conversation

One of the most robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that winter is warming more quickly than other seasons. The cascade of changes it brings, including ice storms and rain in regions that were once reliably below freezing, are symptoms of what an expert calls “warming winter syndrome.”