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The South Atlantic LLC announced a new online module on climate change impacts on grasslands and forests late in March. This module goes along with another one on climate change science that was produced earlier. You can read the official release here and visit the website with the two modules at https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/climate-basics/education. Don’t forget that there…
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The hurricane prediction group at Colorado State University released their April prediction for the upcoming Atlantic tropical season. You can read all the gory statistical details at https://hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu/Forecasts/2015/apr2015/appdr2015.pdf. Here are the predicted numbers, with average values in parentheses: ATLANTIC BASIN SEASONAL HURRICANE FORECAST FOR 2015 Forecast Parameter and 1981-2010 Median (in parentheses) Issue Date 9…
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The latest issue of the National Drought Monitor was released this morning. It shows that abnormally dry conditions and drought expanded slightly across the Southeast, especially in Florida, Alabama and Georgia. An area of moderate drought was reintroduced to southwestern Georgia and an area of severe drought was added to southeast Alabama. You can get…
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This week VOX published a series of spectacular images which show how humans are changing the planet through agriculture and urbanization as well as abandonment of areas under drought and nuclear disasters. You can view these images at https://www.vox.com/2015/4/7/8352381/anthropocene-NASA-images.
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NOAA has released their climate summary for the US for March 2015. The maps below show that while the west continued its record-setting warm conditions, the eastern US was split between areas that were slightly above normal (including the Southeast) where it was dry and below normal temperatures where it was wet. March was the…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has a useful display tool for showing the rankings of observed temperature values at NWS stations around the Southeast. Today a number of stations in the region set record high temperatures and a few more set record high minimum temperatures. The tool also allows you to look two days ahead…
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I ran across a fascinating set of maps on the average date of greenup on agricultural lands today. This set of maps is provided by ForWarn, which is the satellite-based tracking service of the US Forest Service. You can find them at https://forwarn.forestthreats.org/highlights/918#. One of the most interesting things to me is the extent to…
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