In the Southeast, changes in land use from bare ground croplands to forests are thought to be one of the contributing factors to the cooling that Georgia and other Southeastern states saw in the period from roughly the 1940’s to the 1970’s. Now a similar land use change in western…
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Proxy data like tree rings, pollen cores from lakes, and ice cores from glaciers can help scientists decipher the long-range climate history of a location by figuring out how the patterns of pollen or tree rings relate to the temperature and precipitation at the time they were laid down. Cave…
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Today is February 29, which happens about once every four years. If you are interested in why we need to add an extra day to our calendar in some years, you will be interested in watching a video and reading more at EarthSky here.
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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…
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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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