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In 1996-97 I worked as an intern for National Public Radio’s Science Friday. I think it is one of the best (and only) major radio coverage of science on the air. This week they offered a long discussion with Andrew Revkin on four billion years of weather and climate based…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that no rain is expected in almost all of the Southeast this week. The weekend should be completely dry except for some weak showers along the Appalachian Mountains, then no rain in the region until Thursday and Friday, when a front moving into the…
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In the past week I’ve run across several sources of maps related to various aspects of climate that you might find useful. NOAA Global Vegetation Health Maps show the conditions of vegetation around the world on zoomable maps. Data are based on satellite scans from space. https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/global-vegetation-health-images for information or go directly…
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According to New Atlas, the Chinese satellite TanSat has provided the first global maps of carbon dioxide. In the article, it shows maps from two months, April and July 2017. This satellite view will allow scientists to study changes in carbon dioxide across the earth depending on the season as…
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Heavy rainfall over the last week has put a significant dent in severe drought conditions in Georgia and South Carolina, reducing it by half. Other categories of drought and dry conditions were also reduced in those states. No change was seen in North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama. Southern Florida missed…
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There has been a wealth of stories related to climate and/or agriculture in the past few weeks. Here are a few that have caught my eye. I hope you will find one or more useful to you. Bloomberg Businessweek: The Fighting Has Begun Over Who Owns Land Drowned by Climate…
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Here’s a very interesting story about some work done by John Magnuson, one of my colleagues from my days in Wisconsin. John is an expert in ice-off dates on lakes, and this story is about how he and some other scientists were able to decipher two very long records of…
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