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Many media stories have focused on either climate change or El Niño as an explanation for why the North Pacific Ocean is so warm this year. Yesterday this blog discussed one of the consequences of the warm water–the record-setting tropical season in the Pacific Ocean this year, which has far surpassed previous seasons in the…
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Up in Michigan, where I was born, thinking about snow in November is a regular occurrence. Here in the Southeast, snow does not usually hit until much later, if ever. The Daily Mail just published a NOAA map of the median date of first measurable snowfall with a link to an interactive version that…
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I’ve read several articles on fall recently that I have really enjoyed. Since it is too wet to do much outside unless you have to (at least in my area), you might enjoy them too. First, the State Climate Office of North Carolina did a nice explanation of the changing color of the leaves at…
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Matt Daniel wrote a blog entry in EarthSky this weekend describing some of the scary weather that has been seen in horror movies. For Halloween you might enjoy reading about them at https://earthsky.org/earth/favorite-scary-weather-scenes-in-horror-movies.
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A rare occurrence of a tropical cyclone (equivalent to a hurricane in the Atlantic) making landfall on the Arabian peninsula is expected to occur this week as Chapala moves west towards Yemen and Oman. Some areas of the desert countries could receive up to 8 years’ worth of rain in 1 to 2 days. Chapala…
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Measurements of sea level have shown that sea level in most areas of the world is increasing. This is due to the impacts of warming ocean water, which expands as it gets warmer, plus the additional water added to the oceans by the melting of glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. The impacts of…
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According to a recent news story in CBS News, a new study published in Environmental Research Letters projects that the onset of spring plant growth will shift up by an average of three weeks by the year 2100 due to climate change trends. The trend to warmer temperatures are expected to shift the dates of first…