Brittany Peterson
@brittanykpeters.bsky.social
Associated Press video journalist covering Western water. Colorado basic.
This was a fun one to shoot.
Ping. Ping. Ping. AP takes you into the heart of a hailstorm with storm-chasing scientists to find out how better to forecast & reduce the annual $10B in damage. Join me, @brittanykpeters.bsky.social & Carolyn Kaster inside a Texas hailstorm. Hear it. See it. apnews.com/article/stor...
Ping, ping ping. Here's what it's like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science
A team of about 60 researchers are spending six weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail. It's a first-of-its-kind giant science project that may eventually help better forecast an underappreciated weat...
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June 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This was a fun one to shoot.
I’m chasing hail in the Great Plains this week.
Join AP and scientists as we drive into hailstorms. The underappreciated weather extreme costs $10 billion a year. @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hail...
Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme
A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail. It's one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers.
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June 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’m chasing hail in the Great Plains this week.
Reposted by Brittany Peterson
Join AP and scientists as we drive into hailstorms. The underappreciated weather extreme costs $10 billion a year. @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hail...
Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme
A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail. It's one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers.
apnews.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Join AP and scientists as we drive into hailstorms. The underappreciated weather extreme costs $10 billion a year. @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hail...
No one breaks down climate news like my colleague @borenbears.bsky.social. Important read today.
apnews.com/article/clim...
apnews.com/article/clim...
Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn
Top weather agencies warn that the world should get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes the globe to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes.
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May 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
No one breaks down climate news like my colleague @borenbears.bsky.social. Important read today.
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apnews.com/article/clim...
For AP's Climate Watch newsletter, I wrote about the major challenges water utilities are facing today, just as federal funds that can help them are being slashed.
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We need to talk about water utilities
Hello and welcome to The Associated Press Climate Watch newsletter. I’m Brittany Peterson, an AP journalist covering Western water.
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May 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
For AP's Climate Watch newsletter, I wrote about the major challenges water utilities are facing today, just as federal funds that can help them are being slashed.
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Nothing says "happy early birthday" like getting a hotel room for your mom to evacuate from a wildfire gobbling up downed debris from Hurricane Helene.
March 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Nothing says "happy early birthday" like getting a hotel room for your mom to evacuate from a wildfire gobbling up downed debris from Hurricane Helene.
Was wondering whether I'd log a ski day for work this winter. This story called for going the extra mile (in the backcountry). Have a read/watch.
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apnews.com/article/aval...
Life-saving avalanche forecasts could be hindered by Trump budget cuts
Officials in the Western U.S. who protect the public from avalanches are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration firing hundreds of meteorologists and other scientists.
apnews.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Was wondering whether I'd log a ski day for work this winter. This story called for going the extra mile (in the backcountry). Have a read/watch.
apnews.com/article/aval...
apnews.com/article/aval...
ISO fired NOAA weather forecasters who want to talk for a story. bpeterson @ ap . org
February 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
ISO fired NOAA weather forecasters who want to talk for a story. bpeterson @ ap . org
"Better water infrastructure by itself won’t protect neighborhoods from fire, experts say, and many of the ideas are expensive. But there are things that communities can do."
My latest for AP.
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My latest for AP.
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February 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"Better water infrastructure by itself won’t protect neighborhoods from fire, experts say, and many of the ideas are expensive. But there are things that communities can do."
My latest for AP.
t.co/pvu873zgQA
My latest for AP.
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