A new webinar series is beginning next week on Tuesday, March 10 at 10 am ET/ 9 am CT. It will cover topics related to the current Southeast Climate (more information below). Information on how to register is listed below. I won’t be able to attend this one due to…
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Our friends at the North Carolina Climate Office post a monthly climate summary of what has gone on in their state. The latest one, for February 2020, is now available at http://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=311&h=5666e5c1 . Check it out!
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Farmers face many threats from the environment, from pests and diseases to extreme weather. The Daily Tar Heel described some of the new challenges agricultural producers are facing from the changing climate and how it is affecting their blueberries and other crops in this article posted last week. Farmers in…
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In the Southeast, changes in land use from bare ground croplands to forests are thought to be one of the contributing factors to the cooling that Georgia and other Southeastern states saw in the period from roughly the 1940’s to the 1970’s. Now a similar land use change in western…
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One of the oddest stories of this past winter coming out of Europe is that many areas that normally see a lot of cold and snow have seen almost no snow at all this year. In Finland, not a single snowflake was seen for the entire winter, which left some…
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I’ve started to get questions about whether or not we have seen our last frost for this spring after the warm winter we have just finished. However, it is still well before the average date of last spring frost for most parts of the region except for the Florida Peninsula,…
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Proxy data like tree rings, pollen cores from lakes, and ice cores from glaciers can help scientists decipher the long-range climate history of a location by figuring out how the patterns of pollen or tree rings relate to the temperature and precipitation at the time they were laid down. Cave…
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