Pam Knox
-
Quartz magazine online published an article recently describing challenges to food and water safety in the future if climate continues to get warmer. Both water-borne diseases and microbial and chemical toxins in food are expected to increase under those conditions. For example, aflatoxins are expected to increase in warmer weather. Aflatoxin is “a mycotoxin common in…
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news -
Earlier this week I posted a blog entry noting the large number of forest fires in the Pacific Northwest. Numerous articles noted that the number is far above the long-term average. However, Cliff Mass of the University of Washington has a slightly different take on it. In a blog posting today, he notes that while…
-
The National Hurricane Center is issuing an advisory on a small circulation in the Gulf of Mexico over the panhandle of Florida. While the chance of development into a tropical system in the next 48 hours is small at 10%, it could still bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to the area near the…
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news -
The latest 7-day QPF forecast shows that much of the coastline of the Southeast (with the exception of southern Florida) will receive ample rain in the next week. The stalled front which has caused tremendous rainfall in the last week along the west coast of peninsular Florida is not expected to move much in the…
Posted in: Climate outlooks -
Have you ever been to Miami? It’s one of the most international cities in the US, with a lot of culture as well as technology. I was really struck by a story from The Guardian earlier this month which describes the problems that Miami is undergoing now from rising sea levels, which are linked in…
-
The preliminary climate statistics for July 2015 for the Southeast show that temperatures were generally above normal everywhere except for small areas of North Carolina and Virginia. Precipitation across the region was fairly close to normal, with the wettest conditions in the peninsula of Florida and in northern North Carolina. No records were set, but…
Posted in: Climate summaries -
Sometimes in the Southeast we hear that the temperature is 100 degrees and the humidity is 98%. While it may feel that way, it really never gets that hot and humid here. But in southern Iran this week, the combination of an air temperature of 109 F and a dewpoint of 90 F led to…