Measurements of sea level have shown that sea level in most areas of the world is increasing. This is due to the impacts of warming ocean water, which expands as it gets warmer, plus the additional water added to the oceans by the melting of glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has been posting a series of articles on extreme weather in North Carolina. The latest offering describes the most extreme hurricane to hit each part of the state along with facts about each storm. You can read it at http://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=157&h=5666e5c1.
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My meteorologist friends have been filling up social media today with the latest information on Hurricane Joaquin, currently a strong category 2 storm in the Atlantic Ocean. (Note: at 11 pm it was increased to a major Category 3 hurricane.) It is moving slowly southwest now but is expected to…
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Another great map I found this week describes the spatial pattern of light pollution across the US (there are also maps for other countries available online). This map was described in an article in The Week magazine. The US map below shows the amount of light pollution across the US….
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PBS Newshour put together a 4 minute video describing some current research by UGA professor Merryl Alber to study what happens to coastal marshes when you change them from fresh water to salt water. This is expected to happen as sea level continues to rise in the next century. You can…
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Recently I posted a story about nuisance flooding and its projected increase for parts of the Atlantic coast due to El Niño as well as rising sea levels. Here is a good FAQ on what nuisance flooding is and why it is important (link).
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In conjunction with the NOAA climate report released today, NOAA has provided a report on nuisance flooding at coastal stations along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts based on their coastal data sets. Nuisance flooding is minor coastal flooding driven by higher than normal tides coupled with unusually storm weather, not…
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