Climate science
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This ProPublica storymap is from 2020, but I ran across it today when I was working on a talk for later this week. It’s worth looking at again. The maps show some of the likely changes in climate we can expect to see over the next 50 years as the earth gets warmer. The website…
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Climate scientists are constantly analyzing data and looking at results of computer modeling to better understand how the earth’s atmosphere/ocean system works. Even though it may seem like they are changing their minds, they are really updating their understanding when they see new information in the data they are studying. That is what science is.…
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My favorite Twitter climatologist, Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49, produced this series of maps for fall showing the trends over the last 50 years, just a few years shorter than the average age of a farmer in the US. The maps show that for fall, there is only one county in the US (in SE Iowa) that…
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A “cut-off” low is an area of low pressure in the atmosphere separated or cut off from the main atmospheric circulation. That means it does not feel the steering effects of the westerly winds and sits and spins in one spot for several days until something comes to push it out. We get cut-off lows…
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If you follow tropical weather at all, you are probably not surprised to know that the number of landfalling hurricanes and tropical storms we have had the last few years has been very high, and of course we have had to deal with the impacts of those storms, ranging from extreme winds to significant storm…
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Now that we are in fall, we can expect to see more frequent formation of fog, especially in the mornings and late in the day as the air cools down to a temperature that allows water vapor to condense. Earth Networks has a new video and web page that gives a good description of how…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has posted a new blog that describes how drought is defined, how the Drought Monitor determines its level, and the problems that it has capturing agricultural drought. They also describe a project looking at how drought is communicated and what they learned about improving communication. You can read it…