Climate science
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It seems that the national media is finally becoming aware of the unfolding tragedy that is the flooding occurring in Louisiana. There have been many more reports on the flooding in the last couple of days. So far, 9 people have been killed and over 20,000 displaced by the flooding. According to the Wunder Blog,…
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Just for fun, I am posting this link to a list of obscure regional phrases for extreme heat from Mental Floss. If you have other ones, email them to me and I will add them to the post. https://mentalfloss.com/article/31165/11-obscure-regional-phrases-describe-excessive-heat
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The Washington Post had a thoughtful article today about how Hoboken NJ is dealing with development along the seafront following the devastation from Hurricane Sandy. This is particularly important because of the risks from sea level rise in the coming decades, which will make inundation along the coastline more frequent in the future. Many coastal…
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The Capital Weather Gang of the Washington Post had an interesting article earlier this week discussing why the current weather is bringing huge rains to Louisiana and other areas of the central US as well as bringing heat and sweltering weather to the East Coast. The maps in this article are a couple of days…
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You know if you’ve been reading this blog that we missed out on a bunch of rain this week. The lucky winner instead was Louisiana, which had estimated rain totals as much as 30 inches so far, and it is still raining. Here are a couple of stories about the flooding. Steve Hilberg wrote about…
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I was pleased to meet with the ANR extension agents in Southeast Georgia today in Brunswick and talk to them about sources of weather and climate information. I mentioned fact sheets on Southeast climate but did not provide the web link, so here it is: https://agroclimate.org/fact-sheets-climate.php. If you are interested in producing similar fact sheets for…
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The Sightline Institute published a unique resource on climate change back in 2013 that just came to my attention. Dr. Greg Johnson, a Northwest oceanographer, published a set of 19 illustrated haikus which summarize the latest IPCC report on changing climate. Take a look at the beautiful artwork and see how succinctly this very large…