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You may have seen the graphic “climate stripes” for the US showing the annual temperature for each year as a colored stripe. They’ve been made into scarves, rugs, ties and other articles and show how recent years are warmer (redder) than previous years. It’s an interesting way to view the changes in climate that we…
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Dr. Jonathon Foley is a former graduate of the University of Wisconsin like I am, and has spent much of his life looking at the impacts of changing climate on the earth. Here is a short and easy to read discussion of how we know climate is changing and where the greenhouse gases that are…
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Which came first, the warmer temperatures or the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? This has been one of the perplexing questions in studies of past climate. A new study was released last week which shows that the changes in carbon dioxide in past ice ages was due to a combination of colder sea surface…
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Here is an interesting animated map which shows the accumulation of FEMA flood insurance claims over time. As you watch it spool from 1970 to 2018 you can see the impacts of some big events like recent hurricanes and the floods of 1993 in the Upper Midwest. The Southeast has some areas that have been…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most areas of the Southeast should receive rain this week. The driest area is expected to be upstate South Carolina, with wetter conditions in southern Florida, western Alabama, and northern Virginia. The wettest area of the country continues to be a band through eastern Oklahoma to the Ohio…
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The latest edition of the El Niño outlook was published this week. It shows that El Niño is well entrenched in the central Pacific, with cooler conditions in the eastern Pacific due a temporary Kelvin wave. Virtually every statistical and dynamical model predicts that this El Niño will continue for the next few months, potentially…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina announced this week that they are welcoming a new director who will also serve as the State Climatologist. Kathie Dello comes to the Southeast from Oregon, where she was the Associate Director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and Deputy Director of the Oregon Climate Service, the…