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Two stories in the news this week highlighted farmers who are successfully growing crops in tough climate conditions. An National Public Radio story last week showcased an Alaska farmer who is farming in the tundra near the town of Bethel. According to the story, last year he produced 50,000 pounds of potatoes, beets, carrots and…
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The Florida climate summary for February 2015 is now available at the website for the Florida Climate Center. You can see it at by clicking here.
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The CoCoRaHS volunteer network of precipitation observers around the US is having a state by state competition to see who can recruit the most new volunteers this month. “CoCoRaHS” stands for Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network and was started in 1997 in Colorado after a big local flood devastated the Colorado State University’s…
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If you did not get the chance to attend my webinar last Friday on the climate of 2014 and the outlook for 2015, the recording is now available on YouTube. You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUPMFITVhG8. A screen capture of the slide which lists my web sources is shown below. The next webinar from the Southern…
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February 2015 was the second coldest February since 1978, based on preliminary data from National Weather Service stations, rivaling the chilly February of 2010. Precipitation was variable across the state, although most stations were close to normal. Two major storms caused significant impacts across northern Georgia in mid- and late February. Temperatures across the state…
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The climate summary for North Carolina for February 2015 is now available at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=123&h=5666e5c1
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This is the famous quote that opens Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”. In this case it is also a pretty good summary of the divided nature of temperature across the US this winter. The Weather Channel had a story today which described stations that had their record warmest winter ever, including a number…