Climate science
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People around the Southeast marked the solar eclipse of August 21 in a number of ways. In Athens I joined a group of almost 30,000 students, staff, faculty and friends in Sanford Stadium to watch the skies get dark at 99.15% totality. In North Carolina, the State Climate Office folks watched the skies and took…
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Food & Wine magazine put out an article this week about a change in the diet of Alaskan bears due to changes in climate which have affected the production of two of the bears’ favorite foods: salmon and wild berries. The increased temperatures in recent years have brought an earlier start to the berry ripening…
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Here are some climate resources that might be helpful to teachers and 4-H agents from NOAA’s Climate.gov: National Climate Assessment resources at https://www.climate.gov/teaching/national-climate-assessment-resources-educators/2014-national-climate-assessment-resources Literacy on climate and energy at https://www.climate.gov/teaching/essential-principles-climate-literacy/about-clean-climate-literacy-and-energy-awareness
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The New York Times has a short and informative video about how hurricanes form. It talks about how warm water helps the storms to form and how changes in sea surface temperature may be affecting the strength of the storms. You can watch it at https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000002555638/the-future-of-storms.html?smid=fb-share.
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It may still be August and warm and muggy in the Southeast, but folks in the Upper Peninsula are worrying about the possibility of frost, about three weeks earlier than average. With a ridge of high pressure in the western US and a trough of low pressure in the east bringing cool air down from…
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As the eclipse passed us yesterday, scientists were carefully studying not only the outer atmosphere of the sun, or corona, which is normally hidden in the glare from the main ball of the sun, but also the impacts of the eclipse on Earth’s atmosphere. In Athens we noticed that the fair-weather cumulus clouds we often…
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The Capital Weather Gang posted an article describing some of the weather effects that are likely to be seen if you are in or near the path of totality on Monday August 21. Temperatures are likely to drop from the lack of incoming sunlight and clouds may also change since the daytime heating will be…