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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub (SERCH) was established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to deliver science-based information, tools, and technology on climate variability and change to farmers, ranchers, and forest land managers in the Southeast. It recently celebrated its first anniversary. You can read more about SERCH and sign up for its newsletter at https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/compass/2015/05/06/serch-marks-first-anniversary/. Below…
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The National Hurricane Center announced at 11 pm EDT that Subtropical Storm Ana has formed south of Myrtle Beach SC and is moving north very slowly. A subtropical storm is a storm that has some characteristics of a mid-latitude system and some characteristics of a tropical, warm core system. You can read more about the…
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Meteorologists have been watching the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina for the possible development of Ana, the first named storm of the 2015 tropical season. While the hurricane hunters have not found the closed low they look for when making an official declaration, the National Hurricane Center puts the chance…
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EarthSky published a news article this week on the recent new record in monthly average carbon dioxide level recently reached. For the first time since modern records were kept, the global monthly average carbon dioxide level was over 400 parts per million. Compared to both modern measurements and derived values from ice core data, this…
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While you can find thousands of pictures of lightning on the web, until now no one has ever been able to take a picture of thunder. This week, however, scientists at the Southwest Research Institute in Antonio, Texas released a news story describing their first successful attempts to make images of the thunder itself. By…
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NOAA has put out their national summary for the climate of April 2015 this morning. It shows that overall the lower 48 states were about 2 degrees above average and 17th warmest since records began in 1895. It was also above normal in rainfall. In the Southeast, as expected Florida set a new record for…
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The recovery of the “Ozone Hole” in the stratosphere high above the Earth’s surface has been one of the great success stories of the past twenty years. When it was discovered that some refrigerants like chlorofluorocarbons were rising up in the atmosphere to the level of our protective ozone layer (not the ozone near the…