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This week I ran across a story about Antarctic ice sheets and how a collapse of one of the sheets in the Western Antarctic could result in rapidly rising sea levels. While this story is about a year old, it was new to me and provided more context about how the ice sheets are melting…
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When I was a kid, my dad would sometimes take me ice fishing on the local lake in winter. A lot of folks in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota go ice fishing every year. When I was the Wisconsin State Climatologist, one of my jobs was to call the official closing and opening of the lakes…
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The latest monthly climate outlook for January 2020 is now available from the Climate Prediction Center. It shows that all of the Southeast is expected to be warmer than normal, particularly in the southern parts of the region. Most of the region is also leaning towards wetter than normal conditions, due in part to the…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the drought status across most of the Southeast, including Puerto Rico, has not changed from last week. The only exception is in coastal Virginia, where an area of abnormally dry conditions has crept into the region. With the rain that they are expected to get in…
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Welcome to 2020! Hope you had a good holiday break and are eager to get back to work, or at least on to the next thing to do on your list. I spent Christmas up in Michigan with my mom and family, but no white Christmas this year. In fact, temperatures barely got below freezing,…
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While the final statistics for 2019 are still being analyzed, here is a first look at the yearly climate of 2019 for the Southeast. Temperatures across most of the Southeast were well above normal again. A number of stations had an all-time record high for the year, including Atlanta, Macon, and Savannah GA, Key West…
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While I have been away, I’ve read lots of interesting stories about weather and climate in the news. Here are a few I really liked, in no particular order. Forbes.com: Five social media posts about weather that need to go away in 2020 Yale Climate Connections: The case for growing lettuce in New England, even…