Pam Knox
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It’s halfway through February, and the maps so far show that for most of the Southeast, temperatures are cooler than normal by a few degrees and precipitation is wetter than normal, at least in the band where El Niño effects are most often seen. The temperature departure for the winter as a whole is still…
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My alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a photo contest each year for the best weather-related photographs taken by alums. You might enjoy looking at this year’s set. You can find them at https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/news/articles/8497. For more great photographs of clouds, visit https://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org.
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BBC News published a news story this weekend discussing the likely changes we are likely to see in US agriculture if warming trends continue. The story was based on a recently published study of how extreme events like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s would affect agriculture if it happened in a warmer climate in…
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When scientists talk about a climate that is getting warmer, they often talk about 2 degrees of change as being enough to cause irreversible changes in the earth’s climate system. But what makes “2 degrees” important? It’s true that a 2 degree change in daily temperature is barely noticeable in the day to day variability…
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The sound of the wind is described by many names around the world. This essay on the names of the desert wind is a couple of years old but I think a very poetic way to describe the weather that dominates an area with little rain. You can read it at https://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/inyo/the-hundred-names-of-the-desert-wind.html
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I read an interesting article today about the Great Florida Cattle Drive, a celebration of Florida’s statehood. I did not realize that this great roundup was occurring, but was intrigued at the idea of helping people to relive the live of a southern cattle driver from the 1800’s. You might enjoy reading this article and…
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A large area of rain and some frozen precipitation will cross the Southeast beginning Sunday night into Tuesday. The heaviest rain should fall on Monday as the storm develops. Predicting the type and timing of winter precipitation is always tricky, but the current predicted path of the storm makes it likely that most of the…
Posted in: Climate outlooks