Climate science
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Walter Reeves, the “Georgia Gardener”, has some information on plant hardiness zones and how to choose appropriate plants that Georgia gardeners may find useful as we go into the fall season and look forward to next spring. You can find it at https://www.walterreeves.com/gardening-q-and-a/hardiness-zones-for-georgia/. Happy planting!
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What do we expect this coming winter now that the strong El Niño is here? Mike Halpert of NOAA discusses the likely conditions across the US in the Climate.gov blog post here and shows the variation of previous El Niño winters from strong to weak years. Even in the strong years, there is still quite…
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I ran across this useful website from Koshland Science Museum on the basics of climate science and modeling. It has an excellent short video on how climate models work. If you have wondered how climate models are used to make projections of future climate, you might find it helpful. It is at https://www.koshland-science-museum.org/explore-the-science/earth-lab/modeling. The website also…
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Blairsville Experiment Station in far north-central Georgia had their first frost of fall 2015 on October 17, when it got down to 30.4 F, according to the UGA weather network at https://www.georgiaweather.net. Blairsville is one of the coldest parts of Georgia, and thus one of the first regions in the state to get frost. I’ve gotten…
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If you’ve seen the movie “The Martian” you know that the weather on Mars has a big part to play in setting up the story. But what is the weather on Mars really like? The Washington Post published an article on the subject yesterday here. It’s both stranger and closer to Earth’s than you might…
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NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio produced an article recently discussing the importance of sea ice and Arctic clouds on global climate. If you get questions about why we should care about the changes in sea ice over time, this will provide you with some simple and useful information that you can use to explain the energy balance on…
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AP’s The Big Story blog posted a story yesterday on the deaths caused by the floods that recently swept South Carolina. Ten people drowned in their cars in the Columbia SC area from October 3 to 5 as flood waters ravaged the city. “Some were going to work. Some were going to someone else’s aid.…