Climate science
-
Since the President and First Family are visiting Cuba this week, Marshall Shepherd of UGA put together a description of the weather and climate conditions in Cuba for his Forbes.com blog here. One of the interesting things in the article is how much Hurricane Sandy devastated the island nation, well before it hit the New…
-
A recent article in Nature Climate Change by UGA scientists Mathew Hauer and Deepak Mishra and former UGA scientist Jason Evans highlights the severe impacts that rising sea level is expected to have on coastal populations in the US (the abstract is here). The scientists show that based on current projections of sea level rise…
-
The next couple of nights are going to be quite chilly in northern parts of Alabama and Georgia and frost is likely in higher elevations. Some extension agents have told me that in some areas frost damage to fruit trees is a concern because they are blooming so early this year due to the warm…
Posted in: Climate science -
Astronomical spring begins officially when the vernal equinox occurs. This year that happens at 12:30 AM EDT on March 20. So while climatological spring is already well underway (especially this year, with temperatures far above normal), astronomical spring is just starting. You can read more about it at EarthSky here.
-
While NOAA has not yet released their global temperature data for February (that should be coming soon), other data sets of global temperature from NASA and the University of Alabama at Huntsville both show a large jump in temperature anomalies for February. In fact, the jump is so large that many climatologists were shocked at…
-
When you fly on a commercial flight, you might notice some bumpiness in the air as you go along your route. This is called turbulence, and it can range from very mild to severe. While it’s sometimes uncomfortable, it is very seldom deadly. The best thing to do is to keep your seat belt buckled,…
-
In the Southeast you’ve enjoyed a wonderful warm, sunny and dry week here. But to our west, our neighbors in east Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi have been inundated with heavy rain which is locked in place by the combination of a cut-off low pressure area to their southwest and a strong high pressure area…