Pam Knox
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This weekend should be dry for most of the Southeast, but rain returns with a strong front on Sunday night into Monday, and rain will continue for most of the week. The 7-day QPF shows that most of the Southeast will receive an inch or more. Only the southern half of the Florida peninsula will…
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My Facebook feed this week has been abuzz with a recent photo of Kelvin-Helmholtz waves taken by Brad Peterson in Utah earlier this week. K-H waves are caused by rolls of turbulence between two smoothly flowing layers of air and were named for scientists Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz. Over time the waves grow…
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The heavy rains that fell in southern Florida this past week wiped out the last remaining pocket of moderate drought in the Southeast as well as put a dent in the areas of abnormally dry conditions. Hard to believe that just three months ago more than half the region was abnormally dry or worse, and…
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There has been a lot of discussion in the news lately about differences in temperature trends between surface temperatures measured by thermometers and satellite-based temperatures measured by sensing radiation from space. A lot of climate skeptics talk about adjustments made to the surface temperatures, but may not realize that satellite temperatures are also adjusted to…
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TIME magazine has just come out with their compilation of the most spectacular weather images of the year. There’s no doubt that these twelve photos are amazing, but since I have many meteorologist friends who are also photographers, I’ve seen some other photos which rival these. Take a look and see what you think. https://time.com/4142830/extreme-weather-photos-2015/?xid=newsletter-brief…
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Food and Wine‘s latest blog entry discusses the move by Champagne producer Taittinger to bring sparkling wine production to the United Kingdom. The blog post says “The Champagne house is planting vineyards of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier in Kent, to be used in a line of high-end English sparkling wines marketed under the…
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The media has been proclaiming the current very strong El Niño to be potentially record-setting, with the sea surface temperature values tied with the 1997-98 very strong event. But as Emily Becker shows in the latest NOAA El Niño blog, it’s not quite that simple. Her blog post discusses the different methods for calculating the…