January 2016
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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub has released a new blog post by John Hastings, NCSU, on the impacts of changing climate on loblolly pine in the Southeast. This is the first of a two-part report on climate impacts on the most commercially important tree species in the region. You can read it at https://globalchange.ncsu.edu/serch/climate-vulnerabilities-of-loblolly-pine-part-i-temperature/.
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The NWS office in Tampa Bay, Florida, put out an interesting discussion on the potential for frost in central Florida over the next few weeks on Facebook today. The page is shown below. If those in central Florida are discussing the possibility of frost, areas that are farther north, including Georgia and Alabama, should also…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their summary of the 2015 climate in their state. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=171&h=5666e5c1.
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If you are looking for ways to explain El Niño to producers or your parents or children, you might be interested in two recent resources on El Niño that I found online. The World Meteorological Organization has a simple 3-minute video tutorial which explains what El Niño is and how it affects global climate at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v92Iqihct98.…
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Another “top ten” list I ran across this week describes the top ten weather and climate events that occurred in 2015, from Jeff Masters at Weather Underground here. It includes the South Carolina flooding as well as the Christmas week crazy weather and is topped off by the year as the warmest on record for…
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Extremely warm temperatures across Georgia in December 2015 should lead to a new record monthly average temperature for the state as a whole, although final records are still being compiled. Precipitation was also well above normal in many areas of the state, with the exception of the southeast quadrant, where little rainfall was received. Temperatures…
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One of the comments I often hear from people who are dubious about a warming climate is that the change is occurring naturally due to increases in the sun’s output. But is this really true? We do know that solar output is a factor in long-term changes in climate. For example, the wax and wane…
Posted in: Climate science