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Disasterocalypse

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Lawrence Lanahan, Sheilah Kast - Sep. 06 (News Analysis) - What a week. Today we look back at the hurricane and earthquake that struck Maryland the week before last, and Baltimore Gas and Electric spokesman Rob Gould addresses criticism of the utility's effort to restore power to over 750,000 of its customers.

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To Be a Thirsty Tomato

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast, Stephanie Hughes - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - How the extreme heat and dryness is affecting the region's farmers.

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Cool Spots

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - Jul. 27 (News) - The city’s emergency cooling centers—air-conditioned places where free water is handed out—are set up “in the areas where we know there’s the greatest need in terms of vulnerable populations,” said Brian Schleter, spokesperson for the Baltimore Health Department on July 22, when temperatures in the city soared to 107 degrees. Asked if they’re still spaced a bit far apart, he says, “Exactly.”

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BGE proposes changes after PeakRewards complaints

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Liz F. Kay, Julie Baughman - Jul. 25 (News) - As consumer advocates called for a review of BGE's PeakRewards program, the utility said Monday that more than 3,800 customers have dropped or modified their participation after seeing air conditioners cycled off for hours Friday — the hottest day in 75 years.

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Some Baltimore tourist attractions sizzle in the heat

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - By Alexander Jackson - Jul. 25 (News) - As 100-degree weather bared down on visitors outside, there seemed to be no hotter destination than the air-conditioned comfort of Baltimore’s indoor attractions over the weekend.

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BGE to review PeakRewards program

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Andrea F. Siegel - Jul. 24 (News) - Baltimore Gas and Electric is reviewing its PeakRewards program, officials said Sunday, after emergency activation of the energy-saving program turned off air conditioning for hours during the hottest part of Friday, angering customers. The utility will try to avoid another systemwide emergency activation through Saturday, officials said, despite forecasts calling for temperatures to reach 100 degrees or higher Friday and Saturday.

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Heat wave gets hotter

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Frank D. Roylance, Meredith Cohn - Jul. 21 (News) - Maryland really began to turn in the roaster Thursday, joining much of the rest of the country, now deep in the summer's worst heat wave. The mercury reached 103 degrees in downtown Baltimore, with a heat index reading of 117 degrees. It was 100 at BWI-Marshall Airport, four degrees short of a record.

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Baltimore food trucks don't sweat the heat

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - By Alexander Jackson - Jul. 21 (News) - The heat may keep hungry Baltimoreans away from outdoor seating, but it won’t keep them away from the city’s food trucks. Despite temperatures expected to reach a sweltering 103 degrees today, Baltimore’s food trucks are rolling out and setting up shop as usual.

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Heat wave continues in Maryland

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Frank D. Roylance - Jul. 20 (News) - It's hard to find a pleasant forecast anywhere in Maryland this week. There are alerts for excessive heat and poor air quality alerts up for almost the entire state for Thursday. The only exception is if you head west, to Garrett or Allegany counties, the only alert-free zone. For the rest of the state, it's hot and hotter.

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Tuesday highs could reach 100 degrees

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Frank Roylance - Jul. 11 (News) - Marylanders will likely go another round with fierce summer heat Tuesday as temperatures threaten to punch into the high 90s and humidity levels shove the misery index into triple-digits.

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Bottle Rockers

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Lee Gardner - Jun. 08 (News) - People selling cold bottled water on Baltimore streets have become a familiar sight during the summer, so common as to escape notice much of the time. They each have different reasons for being out there, but from talking to a few of these seasonal peddlers, they catch a side of the city perhaps only witnessed from setting up shop on its corners.

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Maryland braces for second heat wave

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Frank D. Roylance - Jun. 08 (News) - Public health authorities urged Maryland residents to take precautions against heat exposure this week as temperatures head back into the mid-90s, with plenty of humidity to add a sticky factor to the misery index.

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Tornadoes in Baltimore City History

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - 2011 May 30: A media tornado blew hard but caused no noticeable damage when former Alaska governor Sarah Palin visited Fort McHenry and hoisted 36-pound cannonballs in the searing heat.

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Rawlings-Blake orders two pools opened early amid record-breaking June heat

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jun. 08 (News) - Summer is officially two weeks away, but the Mid-Atlantic was wilting under yet another powerful late-spring heat-wave today, prompting Baltimore city officials to open two public pools, at Patterson and Druid Hill parks, to help roasting residents beat the heat and “Code Red” conditions.

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Parents Must Demand Air Conditioning in County Schools

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Laurie Taylor-Mitchell - Jun. 07 (Comment) - Smith, as well as Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger and the previous county executive, bear the primary responsibility for why only half of Baltimore County Public Schools have decent climate control, while we are surrounded by counties with 100 percent air conditioning in their schools. Those politicians simply wouldn't pay for it.

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Record-breaking heat in Baltimore, but public pools not open

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Fern Shen - Jun. 01 (News) - Temperatures that officially peaked at 97 degrees – but may have reached the triple digits – blasted Baltimore on this strangely scorching last day of May. Schools closed early. City officials warned citizens not to open fire hydrants. And people showed up at public pools, hoping to find relief. But they were out of luck.

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The Deadly Side of Climate Change

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Katherine Gorman, Nathan Sterner - May. 31 (News Analysis) - The summer heat in Baltimore is already unpleasant enough, but it could become increasingly deadly due to global climate change.

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Spring turns very, very hot for Baltimore

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Frank D. Roylance - May. 31 (News) - More 90-plus heat is predicted for the Baltimore area Wednesday — which could threaten a June 1 record set in 1895 — and officials have extended heat and pollution alerts. Baltimore County schools will close early; the city school district also announced it will operate on a half-day schedule. And the Central Enoch Pratt Free Library branch on Cathedral Street in Baltimore was closed Wednesday due to water shortage problems.

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Six from Local Red Cross are in Tornado-Stricken South

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Janet Metzner - Apr. 30 (News) - Red Cross of Central Maryland volunteer Rich Scanlan of Towson worked in North Carolina and now is a shelter manager in Alabama. Four more volunteers and one staff member have also gone south to help.

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Tornado count for Md., Va. now at seven

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Frank Roylance - Apr. 29 (News) - The National Weather Service has now confirmed that seven tornadoes, with top winds rated from EF-0 to EF-2, touched down in Maryland and Virginia during the storms on Wednesday and Thursday this week.

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Baltimore County Expects the Unexpected in Disaster Drill

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Essex-Middle River Patch - By Ron Snyder - Apr. 21 (News) - Exercise at Eastern Technical High School in Essex educates workers, general public on what to do when an emergency shelter opens.

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Chesapeake Crab numbers down, cold weather blamed

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 19 (News) - An annual winter dredge survey of the Chesapeake Bay says a cold winter has hurt the crab population.

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Despite Cold-Related Deaths of Crabs in Bay, Population Remains Second Highest Since 1997

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bay Daily - By Tom Pelton - Apr. 19 (News) - Despite a dip last year, the blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay has remained at strong levels the last two years and nearly double the record lows set in 2007, Maryland officials announced today.

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Rainy March fills up the reservoirs, but muddies the Bay

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Mar. 24 (News) - While the city’s Loch Raven, Liberty and Prettyboy reservoirs are filled to capacity (76 billion gallons, or nearly 10 billion gallons above average for this time of year), the soggy weather has spawned extremely poor water quality in the Bay.

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Detour to disaster: A reporter's firsthand account of the crisis in Japan

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Capital - By Erin Cox - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - A buzzing interrupted the radio program to announce a 3-meter tsunami warning. I quickly calculated in my head with the only conversion I know: that's a wall of water 1.5 Michael Jordans tall. No big deal, right? The tsunami that erased the coastline was five Michael Jordans high.

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