Pam Knox
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The Washington Post‘s Capital Weather Gang noted in a post today that unusually warm weather is expected to occur across most of the eastern US for the next week, including the start to November. This is due to a strong ridge of high pressure that will remain stationary much of the week before collapsing to…
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The Southeast Climate Consortium held their fall meeting in Athens GA on October 19-20. They have just posted photos and presentations from this meeting on their web site. You can visit https://www.seclimate.org/ to see the posters and presentation slides as well as a list of participants and other meeting information.
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The New York Times published some spectacular pictures of the ice melting in Greenland this summer which were taken by a drone. You can see these images at https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/insider/a-drones-vantage-point-of-a-melting-greenland.html?_r=0 and read more about how the video was taken at the Huffington Post here. If you are interested in why the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is…
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Earlier this week Andrew Revkin of the New York Times posted a blog article discussing the latest carbon dioxide measurement from Mauna Loa, where records have been kept since the International Geophysical Year of 1958. The October 19 measurement shows that the concentration of CO2 is now 398.08 parts per million. As Northern Hemisphere winter…
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Along the East Coast today many roads were underwater from a combination of extremely high tides, onshore flow, remains of the flooding in South Carolina, and rising sea levels. A number of roads were forced to close, including the access to Tybee Island along the Georgia coast near Savannah. This is the third time in…
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If you are wondering how to explain El Niño to your kids (or your grandmother), you might enjoy this video from PBS Digital Studios on El Niño and chaos in the atmosphere at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qPibjwo21g.
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The Atacama Desert in Chile, normally one of the driest places on Earth, was recently photographed covered by millions of pink mallows. Heavy rains in March provided some areas with up to seven years’ worth of rain in 12 hours. You can see pictures and read a description here. While the story does not say…