Climate science
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Do you love weather and climate? Do you want to more about it? If so, you won’t want to miss this CoCoRaHS week’s webinar on the COMET program. It’s being held Thursday October 20 at 1 pm EDT. According to the blurb, “The award-winning COMET Program has produced over 800 hours of online lessons in…
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Yale Climate Connections has a new 6-minute video on the importance of sea ice to global climate. If you would like to know more about the connections between Arctic conditions and what is happening here in the Southeast and in other parts of the globe, check it out at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/10/sea-ice-video-addresses-key-questions/.
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You may have heard television meteorologists talk about the diurnal cycle in temperature in the past, and I thought I would spend a few minutes to discuss it and how the current drought is affecting the diurnal cycle in some parts of the Southeast. I am using an example from Rome GA, which is in…
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Here’s a cool video on YouTube from NASA.gov which shows the progression of rainfall along the path of Hurricane Matthew. This animation shows the amount of rainfall dropped by Hurricane Matthew over the life and track of the storm/ IMERG real time data covering the period from Sept. 28 through Oct. 10, 2016 show rainfall from…
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Deke Arndt posted an article last week in NOAA’s “Beyond the Data” blog on how to answer questions about extremes in temperature using the NCEI website and database. You can read about it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/back-basics-temperature-truisms. If you need this information for stations beyond the NCEI list, you can probably get them from your local state climatologist or…
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A post on Facebook this morning reminded me that it is time to start thinking about fall frosts and freezes. Fortunately from a frost perspective, the next few weeks look like they will be above normal in temperature so we are likely to see a later than average date for the first frost, but even…
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Did you know that you can use cricket and katydid chirps to estimate the temperature? Dolbear’s Law is the formula from the late 19th century that can be used to accurately estimate the temperature based on the number of chirps a cricket emits. Basically, crickets chirp faster when it is warm than when it is…