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How does dust affect climate across the world? While we don’t think about it too often here in the Southeast, it is a big issue in other parts of the country and the world. Dust can affect the transmission of sunlight to the surface, coat the surfaces of glaciers (which affects how they melt), and…
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If you love spectacular photography and time lapse images of clouds, you will enjoy this new 4-minute video from Mike Olbinski showing a series of haboobs, or dust storms, crossing through his home state of Arizona. In the past he has released a number of videos showing the monsoon, tornadoes, lightning, and other severe weather…
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I ran across a very interesting (new to me) blog this week on soil with an article on soil moisture and its importance to agriculture. The University of Georgia weather network cooperates with the group described in the article; that group collects soil moisture from agricultural weather networks across the US because it is critical…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the wettest conditions are likely to occur in middle Alabama and Georgia and the driest conditions in the Florida Peninsula and in North Carolina and Virginia. Most of the rain will occur over the next three days and it will be followed by nearly dry conditions for the…
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The latest monthly global climate summary was released by NOAA this week. Based on their analysis, this was the 5th warmest year since global records began in 1880. Nearly the entire globe other than the cool La Nina area in the eastern Pacific Ocean and the cold pool east of Greenland were warmer than normal.…
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Now that more people are taking flights again, you might be interested in what you see out the window and why your flights are sometimes bumpy. This article from EarthSky provides a look at clouds from an airplane window and what they tell you about the weather that is occurring there.
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NOAA released their latest ENSO outlook today. It shows considerable uncertainty in whether the La Nina will go away and conditions will return to neutral or if La Nina will continue, with variation between different computer models. The overall outlook is for a slight edge towards the continuation of La Nina conditions over the summer,…