Climate and Ag in the news
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Many news sources have been providing stories on the current strong El Nino and its likely impacts on various parts of the world. For example, Discover magazine and many others have compared this El Nino to the record El Nino of 1997-1998, and many scientists feel the current one may end up even stronger than that…
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Late last month a story made the rounds of national newspapers about predictions of a new Little Ice Age that would hit the world in about 15 years, based on some solar research done by scientists in the United Kingdom. One example of the story from AOL.com is available here and a longer-more detailed story at…
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Yahoo News reported today that Hong Kong reported its highest temperature ever on Saturday in 130 years of record. The new high temperature of 36.3 degrees C (97.4 F) came in part due to sinking air outside the circulation of Typhone Soudelor. Typhoon Soudelor ripped up trees and triggered landslides in Taiwan, and knocked out power…
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NOAA released their climate summary for July 2015 today. You can find it at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/201507. The summary shows that July was just above the long-term average in temperature for the contiguous US and that it was somewhat wetter than normal, including a surprisingly wet California, which was impacted by the remains of Hurricane Dolores. Usually California…
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In the last month there have been several stories about bumblebees, a major pollinator, in the media. Here are a couple of the stories. Science Magazine reported on a story about the aerodynamics of bumblebees carrying pollen compared to nectar. Researchers studied the stability in flight of bees carrying nectar, which is held close to…
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AOL.com ran an interesting story today about the hurricane drought in the Atlantic and how it may have stymied efforts by emergency managers to prepare for the next one to hit the US coast. It has been ten years since the last significant hurricane season in 2005, and many people who live along the coast have…
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NOAA released its updated forecast for the 2015 Atlantic tropical season today. The detailed forecast can be found at https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.shtml. NOAA is now predicting a 90 percent chance of a below normal number of tropical storms in the Atlantic basin with just a 10 percent chance of near-normal conditions and no chance of above normal…
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