Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – July 18, 2023

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