Climate science
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The nor’easter which developed along the east coast today has really cranked up. Athensgaweather.com showed this great image of the circulation around the low pressure, which at the time I wrote this was just off the coast of Long Island. The image is from earth.nullschool.net, one of my favorite sites. Make sure to go there to…
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The Weather Channel produced a video and article last week that described some of the toughest places in the United States to forecast the weather. It turns out that it depends on the season and can also vary from one year to the next. Included in the list are two places in the Southeast: the…
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I was doing some research for a project this week and ran across the EPA website of climate change indicators at https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/. Fortunately, it is still available at the EPA web site. I have also downloaded a copy of the full report to keep on hand, just in case. One of the things that really surprised…
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Farmers use a variety of techniques to help protect their vulnerable crops against frost damage when temperatures get near 32 F, including irrigation, large fans, or other heating methods. But it is hard to know when to start the frost prevention measures, because if you wait until it gets to 32 F, then it is…
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Did you wake up this morning already feeling behind? The loss of an hour last night probably contributed to that. Dr. Marshall Shepherd has an interesting post at Forbes.com today about Daylight Saving Time. You can read it here. I used to be more concerned about it when I worked in Wisconsin and was doing…
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While here in the Southeast we have been experiencing an extremely warm winter, in the Pacific Northwest they are experiencing one of the coldest and wettest winters in at least 30 years. For younger folk born after 1985, it is the coldest winter they have ever experienced. Cliff Mass has produced a blog post which…
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For at least the last 150 years, scientists have known that carbon dioxide gas is the primary source of warming in the earth’s atmosphere. Having some carbon dioxide in the atmosphere allows the temperature range on the surface of the earth to be suitable for life. But having higher amounts of carbon dioxide in the…