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While parts of Buffalo have received over 70 inches of snow in this cold outbreak, other areas of the upper Midwest are also feeling the effects of early snow cover. AgWeb posted an article this week discussing the impacts of the snow on corn harvest in the Dakotas, Minnesota, and even Michigan. You can read…
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Even though it seems too cold to ever worry about severe weather again, the Southeast will undergo significant warming over the next few days, reaching up to 70 degrees by Sunday. As the warm air flows back in ahead of a cold front, the chances of rain and thunderstorms, some even reaching severe levels, will…
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My meteorologist and climatologist friends have been posting one story after another about the extreme cold weather we have experienced in the past day. Today many areas set records for low maximum temperature, and some record lows were set. Tomorrow morning, many more record lows are expected to be broken. The Southeast Regional Climate Center…
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In my Facebook feed this morning I read a story from the Washington Post about the growing shortage of chocolate, mainly due to increases in demand from China and other places and also increased demand for dark chocolate, which uses more cocoa, but also due to dry weather in West Africa, specifically Ghana and the Ivory…
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The National Weather Service in Peachtree City GA posted this map of morning temperatures from Kent McMullen today. The purple line marks 32 degrees, the freezing point. Note how much of the country is covered by these icy conditions. You can expect another cold morning tomorrow in the Southeast before temperatures start to swing back…
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NOAA has just announced the availability of a new web site which provides a toolkit of information on how to become more resilient to changes in climate over time. It is especially geared to coastal issues, but there is a lot of information for all stakeholders there. For example, there is a carbon calculator for…
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The North Carolina State Climatology office published a blog this morning which discussed several well-known climate folklore and what they predict for winter. Based on several predictors, winter is projected to be cold and snowy. But how accurate are they? Read the answer at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=104&h=5666e5c1.
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