Climate science
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As the wet season gets underway in Florida, Jeff Masters has a nice description of the wet and dry seasons in Florida in his Wunderblog post this week. We are seeing a pattern shift to more typical wet conditions in Florida and points north, which may help to reduce the moderate drought that has developed…
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The Guardian reported on the most recent global climate report from NASA that globally, April set a new temperature record, making this the seventh month in a row to break the record. With this string of warm months, 2016 is almost certain to set a new record for the warmest year ever. Part of this…
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Love it or hate it, the Al Gore movie “An Inconvenient Truth” brought a lot of awareness about changes in climate over time (both natural and caused by humans) to the public arena. It came out ten years ago, making a large number of prognostications about what the future climate would look like. Science News…
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A lot of my friends have posted links to this spiral animation of global temperature anomalies over time. The Climate Lab Book shows how temperatures have changed from 1850 to the present using a spiral graph instead of a linear graph. You can really see how the temperatures have increased over time in this animation.…
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The Capital Weather Gang posted a new blog article this week describing the impacts of a warmer Arctic, as sea ice continues to disappear. One of the likely consequences of less sea ice is the development of a Greenland block, which is an atmospheric pattern that locks the circulation in place (similar to the Omega…
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Since I grew up in Grand Rapids MI downwind of Lake Michigan, I know how much the lake can affect local temperature and weather conditions in the area. AgWeb has a nice write-up of the impacts of the lake on farmers in northern Indiana, which is also affected by the lake, especially in winter and…
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I spent today at a workshop in Rock Eagle, the 4-H camp near Eatonton GA, working with 4-H agents on ways to teach weather and climate in the classroom and in 4-H camp programs. The documentation for the toolkit is online and anyone can use it. The 4-H Weather and Climate Variability Toolkit is a collaborative…