The North Carolina State Climate Office has posted a new blog that describes how drought is defined, how the Drought Monitor determines its level, and the problems that it has capturing agricultural drought. They also describe a project looking at how drought is communicated and what they learned about improving…
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This Wednesday we will celebrate the autumnal equinox and the beginning of astronomical fall. It happens this year at 3:21 pm EDT. So if fall is your favorite season, get out and enjoy the cooler weather at the end of the week as fall comes in with a cold front…
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According to NOAA’s latest ENSO post, we are on the verge of going back into a La Nina, with a 70-80 percent chance of occurrence over the winter. All of the conditions are ripe for us to cross the magic threshold of ocean temperatures more than 1/2 degree C below…
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In their latest blog post, the North Carolina State Climate Office folks provide some interesting statistical details about the hottest day of the year at stations across the state and how they vary due to geography. When do you think the hottest day is? Is it when the sun is…
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I spend a lot of time talking about the changing climate to a wide variety of audiences. It’s a tricky thing to do because a lot of the sources I use to document the changes are scientific journals with their own set of jargon. If I try to use those…
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By some measures, today is the day on which a named tropical storm is most likely to occur. Does that make it the peak of hurricane season? According to a recent blog post by Brian McNoldy, a Senior Research Associate at University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric…
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As you know if you read this blog, the chance of going back into a La Nina later this year from our present neutral conditions is very high. Last year was also a La Nina winter, and while we expected it to be warmer than normal based on long-term statistics,…
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