Events
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The Dairy Environmental Systems and Climate Adaptation Workshop will be held on July 29-31, 2015 in Ithaca NY. This workshop is being sponsored in part by the USDA-NIFA Animal Agriculture and Climate Change grant that also helps support this blog. Early registration for the workshop ends on May 25, so if you are in the…
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This week marks the one-year anniversary of this blog. I’ve enjoyed sharing stories and news articles with you and appreciate all of my regular subscribers as well as all our visitors. If you have an interesting image or story to share, please send it to me and I will consider adding it to the blog.…
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Can you believe that Earth Day has been around for 45 years? In honor of the 45th annual Earth Day, a couple of postings from the Weather Underground blog. First, a timeline of Earth Day over time at https://wunderground.com/earth-day/earth-day-history/. Second, a link to their special page which has collected stories about Earth Day over the years…
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When a forecaster tells you there is a 30 percent chance of rain, what does it mean? This is the subject of a new survey that is going to be discussed at the 43rd American Meteorological Society Broadcast Conference this summer in Raleigh. The researchers want to know the difference between perceptions of PoP forecasts…
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This week is National Environmental Education Week, and there are a number of activities which you can participate in. One of the ones that sounds the most interesting is the Photo Mission to provide photos of resources that can be found on public lands around the country. You can read about the mission, the theme…
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In the past, the most extensive scientific research on tornadoes has been done in Oklahoma and the central Plains, with NOAA and a host of other groups hosting large projects which intercept tornadoes and take data near and around the storms to see how they develop and evolve over time. Projects called VORTEX and VORTEX2…
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WRAL chief meteorologist Greg Fishel and renowned hurricane specialist Kerry Emmanuel hosted a presentation on the future of hurricanes in North Carolina last night. The town hall presentation has been recorded and is available at https://www.wral.com/news/video/14586628/#47gpHetXx8OqUdW8.99. Note that the full presentation is almost two hours long.