History
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The South Carolina State Climate Office, in conjunction with other cooperators, has released an online story map of the disastrous flooding in October 2015 that has won several awards for its report. You might like to take a look at it. It contains information about the setup for the flood, which included the impacts of…
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I love geology! Growing up in Michigan I could see evidence of past ice ages all around me. It’s a little trickier to see evidence in the Southeast, but there are a few examples here. But one of the most widespread evidence of an Ice Age climate catastrophe can be found in eastern Washington, where…
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In 1993 I was working in Wisconsin as the State Climatologist watching an incredible storm forecast for the Southeast with my husband John Knox, Birmingham AL native. The forecast was one of the best the National Weather Service at the time ever made, and the severity of the storm was well predicted far ahead. Even…
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For about 400 years centered around 1200 AD, Viking farmers lived in two colonies in Greenland, growing a few crops and raising herds of cattle and sheep. As many as 2500 Vikings may have inhabited the two colonies before they disappeared. Conventional wisdom says that they died out as the climate got colder after the end…
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ScienceAlert.com posted an article this week on a huge crater that has formed in the Siberian permafrost region since the 1960s and is rapidly growing. As it does, it has revealed ancient forests, carcasses of mammoths and ancient horses, and what could be 200,000 years of climate records. The records come in the form of…
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A recent study on droughts in the Middle East shows that the recent droughts that have plagued the area are the worst in at least 1100 years, according to a story this week in the American Geophysical Union blog. The scientists in the study collected a stalagmite from a cave in Iraq which contained growth…
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Today marks the anniversary of one of the Southeast’s biggest tornado outbreaks in history. From This Day in Weather History’s Facebook post: “Severe thunderstorms spawned sixty tornadoes in the southeastern U.S., killing between 178 and 1200 people and causing three million dollars damage. Georgia and the Carolinas were the hardest hit by the tornado…