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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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/.
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has released their monthly climate summary for September. In short, A warm start to last month gave way to a more seasonable finish, while a mostly dry month saw needed rain across parts of the Piedmont. That pattern change has also spurred on changing leaves, beginning in the…
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My favorite Twitter climatologist, Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49, produced this series of maps for fall showing the trends over the last 50 years, just a few years shorter than the average age of a farmer in the US. The maps show that for fall, there is only one county in the…
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