Climate science
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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.…
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In the past few weeks climate scientists have been watching with concern the persistent “blob” of colder than normal water that is located in the North Atlantic Ocean. This area of the ocean is well sampled by buoys, ships and satellites so there is a high degree of confidence that this area is indeed experiencing…
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Dr. Jeff Masters of Weather Underground had an interesting blog entry about hurricanes that reach northern locations. He pointed out that the storm that used to be Hurricane Oho in the Central Pacific was now headed for the Alaskan Panhandle, where it was expected to cause strong wind gusts and heavy surf along the Aleutian…
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If you are interested in Florida’s climate or have kids that are interested in studying about it, you might like this lesson from WeatherSTEM on Florida’s climate. Some of the information is specific to Florida, but a lot of it is applicable to the rest of the Southeast as well. You can view it at…
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As you can imagine, there are many articles about the South Carolina flood event. The rainfall is now winding down but the flood impacts will occur for a week or more as all of the water moves down the streams through the system. And of course the wet soils will remain for a lot longer.…
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Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information posted another great entry this week on how El Niño varies from year to year in the “Beyond the Data” blog. You can read it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/not-what-i-ordered-how-el-ni%c3%b1o-bad-bartender.
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The latest forecast for rainfall from the current combination of weather events is shown below. Note that the general pattern and amount of rain expected has not changed. The NWS is still expecting historic rainfall amounts in South Carolina and heavy rain in adjoining areas of North Carolina and Georgia. Slight changes in the weather…