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The last few years have brought many tropical storms and hurricanes to the Southeast. This week marks the 5-year anniversary of Hurricane Matthew, which dropped heavy rains on the East Coast, especially eastern North and South Carolina. The damage to agriculture, infrastructure, and housing from the wind and rain was vast. Corey Davis of the…
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This ProPublica storymap is from 2020, but I ran across it today when I was working on a talk for later this week. It’s worth looking at again. The maps show some of the likely changes in climate we can expect to see over the next 50 years as the earth gets warmer. The website…
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Today is an exciting day for climatologists everywhere, because a climatologist has won the Nobel Prize in physics, along with two other scientists that study complex natural systems. You might not think that was very exciting, but that’s because you don’t know the history of how meteorologists and atmospheric scientists were blocked from getting Nobel…
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Climate scientists are constantly analyzing data and looking at results of computer modeling to better understand how the earth’s atmosphere/ocean system works. Even though it may seem like they are changing their minds, they are really updating their understanding when they see new information in the data they are studying. That is what science is.…
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Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics…
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On April 1, 1960, the world’s first operational weather satellite was launched into space. It opened a new world of information to meteorologists since it could see the weather in areas where there were no surface observations, such as over the oceans and the poles. Now the vast majority of weather observations input into forecasting…
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Here are a good set of lesson plans covering drought in four 45-minute segments, for grades 9 through 12. These are from the Public Broadcasting Service and include videos and handouts for the module. You can access them at https://gpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/kend19-sci-ess-droughtimpact/drought-identifying-impacts-and-evaluating-solutions-lesson-plan/.
Posted in: Drought