Pam Knox
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In previous blog posts I have noted the unprecedented decay of sea ice over the last few years and showed a graph which indicated a rapid decline of global (combined Arctic and Antarctic) sea ice this year. Here’s an update of the chart (most recent year in red). Note that the trend towards unbelievably low…
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NOAA released their January 2017 update for ENSO (the oscillation that is the combination of El Niño and La Niña) this week. It shows that weak La Niña conditions still remain in the eastern Pacific, but that they are expected to go back to neutral conditions within two months. Even though it will be technically…
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If you were hoping for snow in last weekend’s winter storm moving through parts of the Southeast (or even if you weren’t but like weather discussions) you will be very interested in this discussion of the complex forecast surrounding the storm by Matt Daniel, UGA alum and television meteorologist at WMAZ in Macon GA. He…
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Scientific American has an interesting short article today about links between the record warm Arctic temperatures and the jet streams which affect our weather patterns here in the US. You might enjoy reading it. The link is at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-arctic-is-getting-crazy/.
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I am not a Twitter user, since I spend too much time on social media already, but if you are and you enjoy weather content, you should check out this list of the best 100 weather- and climate-related feeds on Twitter. You will recognize several of the sites, since I steal from use their Facebook…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that all drought has been removed from Florida, leaving just a few patches of abnormally dry conditions. Similarly, drought in southern Georgia has also been reduced, but most of northern Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas remain unchanged from last week. In the next week, most of the…
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Deke Arndt of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information provided the following interesting commentary about one of the graphs in the national climate summary that came out yesterday: As far as temperatures go, and especially “extreme” temperatures go, minimum temperatures (a.k.a. “Tmin”, “morning lows”, “overnight lows”, etc.) are increasing more than maximum temperatures (a.k.a. “afternoon…