Pam Knox
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This is one of the more unusual stories I have read about the relationship between agriculture and climate. A set of new rivers has appeared in Argentina, due to a combination of factors that includes land use changes associated with growing soybeans and a rainier climate. The rivers are rapidly eroding farmland, leaving behind deepening…
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The Florida Climate Center has released their latest climate summary, for March 2018. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=520.
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The Adventures in Mapping blog has a story this week about how the season migration in tornado events can be mapped just like the migration of wildebeest or other wandering animal or bird species. Tornadoes undergo a seasonal cycle of occurrence that is ultimately related to the sun’s angle, which changes over the course of…
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The latest NOAA outlook for April 2018 shows that no strong tendencies in either temperature or precipitation are expected this month in the Southeast. There is a small area which is leaning towards above-normal temperature in the southern half of the Florida peninsula and a slight tendency towards cold weather in Virginia but otherwise the…
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The latest monthly summary of climate conditions in March 2018 is now available from the State Climate Office of North Carolina. Like most of the Southeast, March temperatures this year were colder than February’s. Precipitation was variable across the state, which helped reduce dry conditions in some areas. You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=257&h=5666e5c1.
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Here’s an excellent discussion of recent solar activity and the grand solar minimum which will be occurring shortly from my friend John Feldt of Blue Water Outlook, who has given me permission to share it. Solar activity has been rapidly decreasing since around 1980. The current cycle, Solar Cycle 24, has been marked by the…
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Molly Samuel had a story this week on WABE 90.1 radio describing a new study that shows that “Over the past few decades, forests in the eastern U.S. have changed in response to changes in the climate. A recent study describes how as climate alters forests, those same forests then have an effect on the climate. The Southeast…