Climate science
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted an article to their blog today from Bradley McLamb, Meteorologist at the NC Division of Air Quality, and Corey Davis listing the possibilities for cold outbreaks this winter. Even though El Niño is currently expected to impact the Southeast’s weather for the next few months, not every El Niño…
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Last week NOAA released their annual evaluation of 28 separate weather disasters that occurred in 2014 along with a discussion of which if them were affected by trends linked to changing climate and other human factors like changes in land use. This evaluation is published by the American Meteorological Society and is based on evaluations…
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Have you ever wondered how the local topography affects your local climate conditions? Jake Crouch of NOAA’s Climate.gov has a nice blog post which describes how mountains and valleys affect climate. Even though the mountains in the Southeast are not as tall as those in the West, they do provide quite a bit of climate…
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Many media stories have focused on either climate change or El Niño as an explanation for why the North Pacific Ocean is so warm this year. Yesterday this blog discussed one of the consequences of the warm water–the record-setting tropical season in the Pacific Ocean this year, which has far surpassed previous seasons in the…
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Did you know that the Southeast experiences a second peak in severe weather in late fall? While the biggest newsmaker is the spring severe weather season, there are a significant number of tornadoes that occur around November, particularly in the southern parts of the country. Weather Underground produced a story on November tornadoes today, including…
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Up in Michigan, where I was born, thinking about snow in November is a regular occurrence. Here in the Southeast, snow does not usually hit until much later, if ever. The Daily Mail just published a NOAA map of the median date of first measurable snowfall with a link to an interactive version that…
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NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information published a new article this week on the historical comparisons between the current strong El Niño and previous ones. You can read it at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/dyk/elnino-2015-2016. The article displays the difference between each of the historical El Niño years so you can see the year to year variation in where…