Climate science
-
The Capital Weather Gang has posted a great story about the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1816, 200 years ago this summer. The sulfuric acid emissions from this eruption helped contribute to some of the coldest temperatures we have seen in the Northern Hemisphere in modern times, due to the reflection of sunlight…
-
Tropical Storm Colin has come and gone, and you might wonder how much rain we got from the storm as it passed. Of course, the amount you got depends critically on where you are. Here in Athens where we were just on the edge of the storm I got a paltry 0.22 inches, and not…
-
Climate Central has produced an easy to use map which provides color-coded information about trends in temperature across the country. You can find it here. It’s interesting to see how the trends change by region as well as season. In the Southeast, the highest warming trends have been occurring in winter and summer, with less…
-
NASA provides a lot of spectacular images from space, but also does a lot of research on changes in the earth’s surface due to human activity as well as changes in climate on different time scales. Here are a couple of examples I ran across this week. Vox.com posted a story based on NASA’s Earth…
Posted in: Climate science -
Weather Underground‘s latest blog lists ten myths about hurricanes that are not true. Since the tropical season has already started, it’s important to know about the storms that could affect us here in the Southeast (and beyond!) this summer. You can read the list at https://www.wunderground.com/news/hurricane-myths-debunked-2016#prclt-FiGV1ecp.
-
Spring is officially over (climatologically speaking) and now we look forward to summer. I often get asked whether a hot spring means a hot summer, or some other permutation of that question. Often, there is no correlation between seasons. However, in the latest “Beyond the Data” blog entry from Climate.gov, Deke Arndt discusses the impact of a…
-
Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer for most people, and the folks at NEEF (National Environmental Education Foundation) have put together a couple of articles describing the impact of summer weather conditions on human health. The first article describes the impact of extreme heat on human health and lists some of the symptoms…