Climate and Ag in the news
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All my meteorologist friends were talking about the picture of four rainbows captured by Amanda Curtis while she was waiting for a train on Long Island earlier. Some media outlets called it a quadruple rainbow, but after looking at the optics, it was determine instead to the a double rainbow accompanied by a double reflected…
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Monitoring the weather for planning or safety when severe conditions threaten can be a full-time job if you don’t know where to look. The Vane posted an excellent article which describes some of the best apps and web sites for tracking weather at https://thevane.gawker.com/here-are-the-best-websites-and-apps-you-can-use-to-trac-1698292812. Maybe you use some of these already. If there are others you…
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With all the sunshine we get in the Southeast, how does solar energy compare to other parts of the country? Cliff Mass has a good description of solar power climatology at his blog at https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-meteorology-of-solar-power.html. Even though his blog is focused on the solar power capabilities of Washington State, his maps show the distribution of solar…
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This week is National Environmental Education Week, and there are a number of activities which you can participate in. One of the ones that sounds the most interesting is the Photo Mission to provide photos of resources that can be found on public lands around the country. You can read about the mission, the theme…
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How do we know temperatures are changing? What data set do you use? What time period do you analyze? How do you make sense of trends with so much year to year variability? If you’ve asked yourself these questions, you will be interested in this story about one analysis of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay temperatures…
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In the past, the most extensive scientific research on tornadoes has been done in Oklahoma and the central Plains, with NOAA and a host of other groups hosting large projects which intercept tornadoes and take data near and around the storms to see how they develop and evolve over time. Projects called VORTEX and VORTEX2…
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A couple of news stories this week highlighted the impacts of recent warming trends on the Arctic and Amazon regions. Each of these stories points out that the impacts of the warming extend far beyond their local areas. Wired magazine has an article about how scientists are studying the Amazon rain forest to see how…
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