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Watching satellite loops of hurricanes, dust storms, and other atmospheric events has become routine and I see daily examples on social media plus on broadcast television and online. But it was just 65 years ago that the first weather satellite was launched, just a couple of years after the USSR launched Sputnik in 1957. One…
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The latest monthly and seasonal outlooks for May 2025 and May-July 2025 were released by NOAA earlier this week. They show that while May will continue to show a little of the signal from the La Nina that recently went away, including warmer and drier conditions being slightly more likely in southern parts of the…
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Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! This webinar series provides the region with 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 such as wildfires, agriculture production,…
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The weather pattern that we are currently in has a big high pressure center over the southern part of the region. This is preventing any development of rain in most of the region except northern Alabama and North Carolina and Virginia. This pattern will keep most of the Southeast dry this week except for a…
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Here is a handy guide to classifying different types of clouds, as presented by The Weather Channel. Clouds are classified by shape and height and whether or not they are raining (or snowing). The guide will provide you with visual examples of different types of clouds and how they relate to the weather that is…
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If you watch a lot of disaster movies, you might sometimes wonder where they got information about the events that they used as the premise of the movies. Films like Volcano, Titanic, Twister and Twisters, Earthquake, The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact, and many others are based in some way on science, although some more…
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The latest global climate summary for March 2025 was released by NOAA late last week. It shows that nearly the entire globe was above normal in temperature with the exception of a few areas in Antarctica. Sea ice was the second lowest on record for the globe but was the lowest ever for the Arctic.…
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