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The Weather of Our Future: The Weather Channel’s 2050 Forecast

Sea level rise inundation in Miami. A record-setting heat wave in Chicago. A megadrought in the Southwest. Tourism at the North Pole. And the Summer Olympics in Anchorage.   Those are the top weather and climate stories in September, 2050 according to a futuristic video, produced by The Weather Channel. The Weather Channel’s biggest stars – Sam Champion, Jim Cantore, and Stephanie Abrams – deliver the distant news as part of an outreach effort by the World Meteorological Organization to bring the plausible impacts of climate change into the present. To view the video, please visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/09/10/the-weather-of-our-future-the-weather-channels-2050-forecast/.

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