The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
- NOAA launches new hurricane forecast model as Atlantic season starts strong - NOAA
- Relentless heat wave reaching maximum strength: Weather updates - The Washington Post
- Smoke from Canadian wildfires creates unhealthy conditions from Montana to Ohio - AP News
- Dam Break At Archusa Creek Water Park Unleashes Flood in Quitman - Mississippi Free Press
- Firefighters gain ground on Southern California wildfire while Yosemite blaze degrades air quality - AP News
- Wildfire season in West on the verge of explosive development - Accu Weather
- Ongoing rounds of rain to keep flash flood risk elevated in northeastern US - Accu Weather
- Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.’ - The New York Times
- Addressing flooding crisis: solutions to minimize damage - DW News
- Earth had its warmest June on record; June sea surface temperature anomaly was highest for any month on record - NOAA
- Adding Snow to Estimates of Spring Flooding - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Six months. 28 mass killings in the US. That’s the worst yet, and all but one case involved guns - AP News
- Mass killing database: Revealing trends, details and anguish of every US event since 2006 - USA Today
- Islamic State and Al-Qaeda plotting terror attacks in UK, government report to warn - The Telegraph