Pam Knox

  • The State Climate Office of North Carolina published a report on the recent snow and severe weather that hit North Carolina in the last couple of weeks.  You can access it on their blog at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=177&h=5666e5c1.

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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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  • Weather photo contest results

    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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  • Could Iowa become the new cotton state?

    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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  • Why two degrees of warming is important

    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 Hundred Names of the Desert Wind”

    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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  • The Great Florida Cattle Drive

    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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