History
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Earlier in January I was fortunate to see “Hidden Figures”, a movie about brilliant African-American women mathematicians who helped NASA successfully launch astronauts into space. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should, and take your kids with you. This week Dr. Marshall Shepherd discusses some of the hidden women in atmospheric sciences in his…
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You may have heard arguments from time to time that in the 1960s scientists were talking about the coming Ice Age and cooling and not global warming. While it is true that one magazine article during that period noted that we are headed into the next Ice Age in the next 10,000 years or so,…
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My heart goes out to the folks around the Southeast that have been hit by severe weather the past few days and the families that have lost loved ones. While the threat of the worst weather is mostly over, sooner or later another round will come. Here is an article from US Tornadoes which describes…
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Today marks the record coldest day in North Carolina, with a record set on Mount Mitchell back on January 21, 1985. Jason Sandford wrote an interesting story about the weather record on that date, which had a high temperature of -4 degrees and a low of -34 F. You can read more about the cold…
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In addition to the story I posted last week about weather on Inauguration Day, here are two more compilations you might enjoy if you are a history buff. Looks like rain for today’s event! At least the odds are 70 to 30 in favor of rain, and historically 43 percent of January 20’s have had…
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Many of you older folk like me probably remember the cold years in the late 1970s. In Michigan, where I was living, the winters and especially the Januarys were particularly bad, with large snowstorms that dumped feet of snow in some locations. Well, one cold outbreak was so strong that 40 years ago today, in…
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With less than a week to go until Inauguration Day on January 20, you might be interested in this look back at the weather on some previous Inauguration Days by Tom Moore of iWeatherNet.com. You can read it at https://www.iweathernet.com/dallas-fort-worth/inauguration-day-weather-highlights-from-the-past. This year’s event is likely to be one of the warmest on record if the current…