Climate Impact Report – 5/30

May 30, 2025

Key Facts Of The Day 5/30

As of Friday, Alvin was a tropical storm in the North Pacific Ocean, with sustained wind speeds of 50 miles per hour.
Heavy rain will sweep through Kentucky up to southern New York, expected to bring flash flooding.
On Friday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said officials were responding to reports of a possible tornado in Washington County.
- One person was killed and multiple people were injured in Washington County, Kentucky.
On Friday, forecasters warned of damaging wind gusts, hail, and possible tornadoes in Henry County, Georgia.
On Thursday afternoon, a tornado ripped through the Laurel Creek subdivision in Henry County, damaging at least 13 structures.

Plumes of dense smoke from uncontained wildfires in Manitoba, Canada, will blow across more than a dozen central and eastern states Friday and Saturday.
- Air quality alerts are in effect for Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, with the air quality index predicted to reach Level 3 — unhealthy for sensitive groups — or 4, unhealthy for all.

Four billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025.
The daughter of a woman who died during the Pacific Northwest Heat Dome in 2021 sued seven oil and gas companies for wrongful death in Washington state court.