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Today Tropical Storm Nicholas formed in the western Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to move gradually northward and hug the coast of Texas, bringing heavy rain and some storm surge to areas along the coast. Eventually it will work its way north to a landfall in eastern Texas or western Louisiana. It will eventually…
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I spend a lot of time talking about the changing climate to a wide variety of audiences. It’s a tricky thing to do because a lot of the sources I use to document the changes are scientific journals with their own set of jargon. If I try to use those words in communicating to non-scientists…
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If you are following the news out west, you know that Lakes Mead and Powell are at low levels not seen since the reservoirs were filling up. Now, after years of drought and overuse of water, they are running out of water. Here is a good historical perspective from Colorado Assistant State Climatologist Becky Bolinger…
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High pressure will dominate the circulation in the Southeast this week. It is bordered in Florida by a stationary front that is bringing some rain to the Gulf Coast and the Florida Peninsula but the rest of the region should be dry for the next three days, and only light and scattered rain showers will…
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As more surveys are completed, additional information about how Hurricane Ida has affected agriculture in the US have come out. Here are a few additional stories of interest. Modern Farmer: How Has Hurricane Ida Affected Agriculture and Food? AgWeb: Corn Prices Sink on Bleak Export Outlook After Hurricane Ida Crashes Into Gulf Coast Reuters: U.S.…
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The latest monthly and seasonal summaries for the US were released by NOAA earlier this week. August 2021 was the 14th warmest August on record, and the summer months of June through August came out just slightly ahead of 1936 for the warmest summer since 1895. They reported that over 18 percent of the US…
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One of my favorite climatologists, Brian Brettschneider (@climatologist49 on Twitter) has provided a great set of two maps that show the last 12 months in historical context for the US. He compares the current 12-month period that just ended at the end of August to previous 12-month periods going back to 1895 to see how…
Posted in: Climate summaries