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I’ll end my posts today with this scary story, just for Halloween. Be sure to read it all the way to the end for a surprise weather ending. Check it out at Atlas Obscura at https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-skeleton-lake-of-roopkund-india-f-3-p-2-india.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that there has been a significant expansion of abnormally dry conditions in eastern parts of Georgia, with a smaller expansion in Alabama. The amount of moderate drought in the region remains steady at just about 1 percent of the total area….
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As you know if you’ve been following this blog, an El Niño appears to be forming in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and is expected to develop over the next couple of months and last through the winter (gory details of the technical discussion can be found at http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf). A number of…
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Scientific American recently published an article about a new study that looked at how different forests around the world handle drought. What they found was that forests that have a large variety of different tree species were more resilient in a drought than forests with few different types of trees….
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From my climatologist friend Jordan McLeod on Facebook: Here’s a map showing the 4-day rainfall totals from Hurricane Florence, using gridded Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimates (MPE) data provided by the National Weather Service. The footprint of 10″+ of precipitation across the Carolinas is simply astounding, with numerous 30″+ pixels located in…
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If you think you might need climate data but are not sure what you need or where to get it, NOAA has produced a simple primer that provides answers to some of your basic questions about weather and climate data. Check it out at Climate.gov at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/primer/climate-data-primer. If you are still…
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Here are a couple of interesting stories I have seen lately discussing trees and forestry. Virginia Tech News posted a story about how researchers at Virginia Tech are using our knowledge about recent climate trends to predict the growth of loblolly pines through the middle of this century. This will…
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