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If you are affected by a disaster, you may find these resources from the USDA helpful in coping with the aftermath of the event. The USDA has published them as a list in conjunction with the unfolding Hurricane Harvey disaster but most of them (with the exception of the Texas-specific ones) would be applicable anywhere…
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NOAA released their latest global climate summary today for July 2017. Their analysis shows that for the earth as a whole, it was the 2nd warmest July on record just barely behind 2016 by 0.09 degrees F since records began in 1880. The total for the year to date from January to July was also…
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A New Jersey-sized area of the Gulf of Mexico has been declared a dead one this year, the largest ever observed in the region. This means that the nutrient load in the water is so high that algal blooms which feed on the nutrients have depleted all of the oxygen in the water, making it…
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While there is no drought in the Southeast this summer, we are still seeing impacts of past droughts on trees around the area. WABE published a story this week describing the consequences of drought-damaged trees when severe storms bring high winds to the area. You can read about it at https://news.wabe.org/post/summer-storms-bring-down-drought-damaged-trees-atlanta.
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The biggest climate news this week was the release of the annual State of the Climate report for 2016. Written by nearly 500 scientists from 60 different countries (including a number of my friends) who look at many different aspects of the earth-ocean-atmosphere system and the trends in many variables, it provides an unparalleled look…
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According to a recent New York Times article, a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters has shown that sea levels in parts of the Southeast are rising at six times the global average rise. Scientists have proposed a new mechanism for this oddity: Two large-scale atmospheric patterns had intersected to push up the water off the…
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NOAA released the national climate summary for July 2017 this week. It shows that this July was the 10th warmest in 123 years of record for the US. The year to date average temperature is the second warmest on record after 2012 at this time of year. It is also the seventh wettest year to…