Pam Knox
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If you are looking for ways to explain El Niño to producers or your parents or children, you might be interested in two recent resources on El Niño that I found online. The World Meteorological Organization has a simple 3-minute video tutorial which explains what El Niño is and how it affects global climate at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v92Iqihct98.…
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Another “top ten” list I ran across this week describes the top ten weather and climate events that occurred in 2015, from Jeff Masters at Weather Underground here. It includes the South Carolina flooding as well as the Christmas week crazy weather and is topped off by the year as the warmest on record for…
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Extremely warm temperatures across Georgia in December 2015 should lead to a new record monthly average temperature for the state as a whole, although final records are still being compiled. Precipitation was also well above normal in many areas of the state, with the exception of the southeast quadrant, where little rainfall was received. Temperatures…
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One of the comments I often hear from people who are dubious about a warming climate is that the change is occurring naturally due to increases in the sun’s output. But is this really true? We do know that solar output is a factor in long-term changes in climate. For example, the wax and wane…
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The importance of bees in pollinating crops has been in the news in recent years because of declining populations of wild and domestic bees and other pollinators due to unidentified causes which may include both natural and manmade changes to their ecosystems, including climate. The University of Vermont released a map in December which shows the…
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Do you listen to Chicken Little? Is the sky really about to fall? In the last few days I’ve seen a lot of posts on Facebook and Twitter that discuss the possibility of impending winter weather, snow, ice, and Arctic blasts for later in January. Some of them are from reputable meteorologists; many more are…
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The latest climate summary for Florida for December 2015 is now available at their website. You can visit it by clicking here.
Posted in: Climate summaries