Pam Knox

  • The Southeast Regional Climate Center has produced their summary for the July 2018 climate across the Southeast. You can read it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportJuly2018.pdf.

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  • What do you think makes for a “nice” day? Do you like cool and pretty or warm and breezy? While everyone has their own unique favorite weather pattern, using a combination of days within a certain temperature and humidity range, the number of days with sunshine, and some other factors, climatologist Brian Brettschneider provides a…

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  • How to understand sea level projections

    NASA has a useful web site which describes how sea level is measured and how future rises of sea level are projected using both current data and computer simulations. If you live near the coast you might be especially interested in learning more. You can view it at https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/projections/overview.

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  • The latest climate summary for North Carolina covering July 2018 is now available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=262&h=5666e5c1.  

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  • AgWeb posted an interesting article this week on a new study published by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on trends in the seasonal cycle of temperatures around the globe. The work used a new technique called “fingerprinting” which allowed them to separate out the effects of natural climate variability such as that caused by…

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  • NOAA’s State of the Climate 2017

    Last week NOAA and the American Meteorological Society jointly released the annual State of the Climate report for 2017. This massive report looks at the climate across the globe, both in totality and broken down by regions. It is the work of over 400 scientists from around the world, including a number who are my…

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  • EarthSky: Images of crepuscular rays

    You’ve probably seen crepuscular rays late in the day when the sun is drifting lower in the sky and beams of light shoot out from behind clouds. These are called crepuscular rays, and they can be spectacular! You can see a collection of images from EarthSky at https://earthsky.org/todays-image/gallery-sunrays-around-the-world

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