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Have you ever been to Miami? It’s one of the most international cities in the US, with a lot of culture as well as technology. I was really struck by a story from The Guardian earlier this month which describes the problems that Miami is undergoing now from rising sea levels, which are linked in…
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The preliminary climate statistics for July 2015 for the Southeast show that temperatures were generally above normal everywhere except for small areas of North Carolina and Virginia. Precipitation across the region was fairly close to normal, with the wettest conditions in the peninsula of Florida and in northern North Carolina. No records were set, but…
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Sometimes in the Southeast we hear that the temperature is 100 degrees and the humidity is 98%. While it may feel that way, it really never gets that hot and humid here. But in southern Iran this week, the combination of an air temperature of 109 F and a dewpoint of 90 F led to…
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According to the State Climate Office at North Carolina State University, this has been the most humid summer in 20 years, as reported by ABC11 in Raleigh, NC. Ryan Boyles, the Director of the State Climate office, says this year is one for the record books. “So far the summer of 2015 ranks as the…
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The latest Drought Monitor was released this morning and shows that the extreme drought in southern Florida decreased in area due to recent rain. However, North Carolina developed an area of severe drought and is undergoing water restrictions in some places. Abnormally dry conditions also expanded to cover most of South Carolina. You can read…
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This week I am attending the Dairy Environmental Systems and Climate Adaptation Conference in Ithaca NY. It has been a great conference so far and I am looking forward to a few more talks before it ends. A lot of the information presented today has been about the health of dairy cows and how they…
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New research this week has explored the impacts of abrupt changes in climate on civilizations in the Middle East as well as on the decline and extinction of mammoths. Abrupt climate change is a rapid alteration in the climate, often from wet to dry conditions or vice versa, that happens quickly over a few years or…
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