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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…
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The climate summary for April 2015 for Florida is now available at the Florida Climate Center web site here.
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Earlier this week I noted the potential for an early start to the Atlantic tropical season. Today the National Hurricane Center issued this statement about the potential for development: “A large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms extending from the northwestern Caribbean Sea across Cuba, southern Florida, and the Bahamas is associated with an upper-level…
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April 2015 was much warmer and wetter than normal across the state. The wet conditions caused delays in planting and contributed to some disease pressure in crops while the warm conditions accelerated the growth of plants like corn that were already in the ground. While statewide statistics will not be available until later this month,…
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