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On this rainy Friday, I want to highlight a recent study which was published in Nature Communications. From Wikipedia: Petrichor (/ˈpɛtrɨkɔər/) is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek, petra, meaning ‘stone’ + ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek…
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Today (Saturday) may be the driest day of the week for most of the Southeast. A coastal storm should bring rain to coastal areas of the Southeast this weekend while the next large-scale storm moves into the area from the west on Sunday evening into Monday. A second storm is expected to move through the…
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The NWS has just updated their El Nino blog to discuss the latest news on El Nino. You may recall that we have been flirting with an El Nino for several months but so far none has materialized, although many signs are there. The new blog posting discusses the latest with the Eastern Pacific Ocean…
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Climate modeling is something that is often attacked by those who are skeptical about projections of future changes in climate. Today I saw three articles which I think do an excellent job of explaining some of the difficulties with climate modeling. The first is a blog posting on our sister site, Animal Agriculture in a…
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Clouds are one of the main unknowns in understanding how climate might change in the future. Low clouds reflect sunlight back to space, cooling the planet, while high clouds trap heat near the surface, warming things up. Because of their temporary nature, they are hard to model adequately in global climate models, leading to uncertainty…
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Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease that causes a variety of symptoms in humans, including respiratory issues, joint pain, and rashes and fever. It was first identified in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1977 and has expanded across the northeastern US since then. If you work outdoors in areas where deer are plentiful, you may have found…
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