Climate science
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Here is a cute 6-minute video which explains how drought is assessed in the US by the Drought Monitor. It’s produced by our CoCoRaHS friends, who also have a lot of handy videos on how to measure precipitation. It includes a discussion of what the different drought classifications mean and how the Drought Monitor is…
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Update: Dr. Shepherd provided an update on this story on Saturday. You can read it here. In it he shows that the snow was not true lake-effect snow but part of a larger area of convergence…
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National Public Radio published a story earlier this week collecting information on how the trend towards warmer winters is causing impacts in different parts of the US. Here in the Southeast, we are seeing impacts on fruit like blueberries and peaches and on disease vectors…
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In spite of the old and tired joke that meteorologists have one of the few jobs that allow you to be wrong all the time and still get paid, in reality most weather forecasters get the weather right a lot more often than they whiff. But people tend not to remember the correct forecasts…
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Over the past few weeks I have seen a number of stories addressing impacts of changing climate on agriculture and other businesses that you might find interesting. They are listed in no particular order below…
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This has been a crazy week for weather in the Southeast, and especially in Georgia where we saw inches of rain, record warm conditions, and this morning, snow in northern parts of the state (including just less than an inch at my house in Athens). What is going on with this roller-coaster weather? Dr. Marshall…
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If you are interested in watching a video about how climate is changing in Florida and the Southeast, you can’t do better than view this recorded presentation by State Climatologist David Zierden speaking to student journalists at the University of Florida. It has a few audio and visual issues since it was recorded live, but…
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