A lot of good weather-related videos have shown up in my Facebook feed this week. You might enjoy them too. Marshall Shepherd of UGA pointed out a humorous short video called “Blame it on El Niño–Do you know what it really is?” here. The New York Times posted a descriptive video…
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Subtropical Storm Alex transitioned and strengthened today and was declared the first Atlantic hurricane for 2016, a full six months earlier than the average date of the first named storm. This means that Alex has set a number of records. Some of these are detailed in this post at :…
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NASA published a blog post on a set of soil composition maps this week, which really show the range of water-holding capacity across the United States. The series of maps show the composition of soil by sand, clay, and silt as well as showing the available water storage. As expected, the…
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The Forest Service’s Southern Research Station has produced a new map for the United States which shows the extent of forested plots that have at least one invasive species present. The study that the map is based on shows that in Southeastern forests, about 39 percent of all the plots…
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I admit that I am a sucker for “best” lists around New Year’s. Having said that, I think you’ll also enjoy this slide set of the 50 best science and technology images of 2015 from Popular Science magazine. There are several of weather and agriculture included in the set. Happy…
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Climate Stories NC is a web site which collects videotaped stories of how changes in climate are affecting the citizens of North Carolina, including fishermen, beekeepers, wildlife managers, and others. You can visit and watch these short videos at http://climatestoriesnc.org/.
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I love to look at nature photography, and today I found two stories on fantastic photographers who make images of snowflakes and waves. Here are links below to the stories along with some striking pictures of snowflakes up close and ocean waves. The snowflake story also has a link to…
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