History
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Here’s the first of four blog posts that provide a retrospective on Hurricane Florence and its impacts on North Carolina, five years after it happened, from the North Carolina State Climate Office. You can read it at Florence After Five: An Anxious Arrival – North Carolina State Climate Office (ncsu.edu) on their climate blog. Update:…
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Here is an interesting story on a measure of the changing climate you may not have thought of. Scientists at the University of British Columbia looked at menus from local restaurants over the last 130 years to see how the types of local seafood changed over time. By looking at the species of fish listed…
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Do you enjoy reading about past weather and climate events? If so, you might be interested in this story published in Morning Ag Clips about the very cold summer of 1816, which followed a major volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora that put a lot of emissions into the atmosphere. That kept sunlight from reaching the…
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The Land-Grant Press of Clemson Extension has a new publication on historical floods in South Carolina. It provides descriptions of different types of floods and a description of several historical events that have caused significant flooding in the state. While the historical events are focused on South Carolina, much of the background information is more…
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There have been a lot of stories in the news recently discussing various aspects of climate and its impacts on society, including agriculture. Here are some of my favorite ones. Tulane News: Study finds record-breaking rates of sea-level rise along the U.S. Southeast and Gulf coasts since 2010 Wired: One City’s Escape Plan From Rising…
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If you are interested in science history or are interested in citizen science, you will enjoy this NOAA article on some prominent citizen scientists of the past. It includes some familiar names like Benjamin Franklin but may also include some others you know less about. You can read here.
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According to the BBC, today is the anniversary of the first broadcast of an in-vision television forecaster, George Cowling, who stood in front of a weather map for the first time. This was even before the first teleprompter was used. He was employed by the U. K. Meteorological Office and was a professional meteorologist. You…