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I recently ran across this story from January 2018 which describes an invited talk that Edward Geller, famous physicist and part of the Manhattan Project, gave to a gala celebration noting the 100th anniversary of the petroleum industry. According to a transcript of the speech, given in 1959, Geller warned…
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Atlas Obscura had a very interesting post in October that discussed how scientists are using prehistoric sand ripples that have been preserved in rocks from about 200 million years ago to determine what the weather was like. These scientists from MIT used rocks from Massachusetts that had both preserved ripples…
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I’ll end my posts today with this scary story, just for Halloween. Be sure to read it all the way to the end for a surprise weather ending. Check it out at Atlas Obscura at https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-skeleton-lake-of-roopkund-india-f-3-p-2-india.
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Hurricane Florence came ashore in North Carolina six weeks ago, but many stories of the damage have beeen eclipsed by the more recent impacts of Hurricane Michael, which came ashore on the Florida Panhandle just a few weeks ago. But for folks in the Carolinas affected by the flooding from…
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Just for fun, you might enjoy this article about a recent National Weather Service forecast discussion that was written by a forecaster who either has a fondness for Shakespeare or too much time to kill on an overnight shift. Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA posted this story in his column…
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Growing Georgia posted a new story about the impacts of Hurricane Michael from the standpoint of several farmers in southwest Georgia. The impacts are going to be felt in many ways for years to come. You can read the story at http://georgia.growingamerica.com/features/2018/10/hurricane-michaels-destruction-land-crops-and-property.
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Sharon Dowdy of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has an interesting story this week about how farmers and extension agents in southwest Georgia are coping after the devastating effect of Hurricane Michael earlier this month. Lots of good stories about what happened to farmers around the area and…
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