Climate science
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Recent research in Science Advances by University of California-Berkeley has confirmed what NOAA scientists reported in 2015: there was no pause in global warming during the period when most media skeptics were talking about the end of the warming curve. The scientists looked at methods for correcting climate data to account for changes in instrumentation,…
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In view of the chance of snow or ice in parts of the Southeast this weekend, the Weather Channel has posted a story describing what you need to get snow or ice in the Southeast and why it’s so hard to predict. Snow in most of the Southeast (except for Florida and immediately along the…
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Many of you know that one factor that may have affected the recent presidential election is the number of fake news stories that were sent out via social media like Facebook. This week has been an example of a related issue, fake weather news. My Facebook feed has been buzzing the last few days about…
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A good science lesson from recently retired Milwaukee meteorologist Vince Condella (a friend of mine from grad school): It’s that time of year again, one of the great paradoxes of nature. On Wednesday, January 4, at 7:18 a.m. Arizona time, 8:18 a.m. in Wisconsin, the Earth reaches Perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun during the…
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This week NOAA released their latest report, the fifth edition of Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective, which presents 25 peer-reviewed research papers that examine episodes of extreme weather of 2015 over five continents and two oceans. It features the research of 116 scientists from 18 countries analyzing both historical observations and changing trends…
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The latest ENSO blog post from NOAA’s Climate.gov provides an excellent discussion of how La Niña causes shifts in temperature and precipitation across the Southeast and other regions of the US and other countries. It describes the shifts in the jet stream associated with the pool of colder-than-normal ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean…
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How do you know if a state has set a new record for temperature, precipitation or snowfall? It’s not an easy process! You have to look at the historical data, assess its accuracy, determine what other events compare to it, and decide if the potential new record meets all the qualifications needed to represent an…