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Monday March 20 marks the beginning of astronomical spring for the Northern Hemisphere. Remember that for climatologists, spring begins on March 1, so we are already three weeks into spring from a weather standpoint! You can read more about the vernal equinox at EarthSky here.
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you can’t help but have noticed the unusually warm spring we are experiencing in the Southeast so far this year (and even then, the rock would probably be getting warm!). Observations from the National Phenology Network indicate that we are running 3-4 weeks ahead of normal based on…
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Travel and Leisure magazine published an interesting article this week on some research recently published by Swiss scientists in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal The Cryosphere. In the article, the scientists show that the best case scenario, where nations around the world follow the Paris climate agreements to limit greenhouse warming to 2 degrees Centigrade, the…
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Last week I reported that the Oroville Dam in northern California was in danger of losing its capacity to hold back water from the reservoir there, the second biggest one in California, due to a damaged spillway and water overtopping the emergency overland spillway due to heavy rains in the area. Hundreds of thousands of…
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The latest Drought Monitor shows the expansion of abnormally dry conditions across Florida and the Carolinas this week, due in part to low rainfall amounts and also to the very warm temperatures the region has experienced this past week. Areas of moderate drought have also been added to parts of northern Virginia and southern Florida. …
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I gave a talk on projections of future climate today to a group of farmers and other interested folk in LaGrange, GA. One of the things we discussed in the talk is how weather and climate forecasts are similar and how they are different, because they are really designed to do different things even though…
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Today is Groundhog Day (or Candlemas Day, depending on which calendar you use). News outlets across the US are reporting on whether we are going to have six more weeks of winter or if spring will come early based on the shadow of a marmot. All while the flowering plum trees here in Athens in…