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This week’s question from the Georgia Climate Project’s Roadmap looks at the need for research to identify how different strategies for reducing the emission of greenhouse gases will affect different constituent groups. There are trade-offs in benefits or costs for different groups, since any particular action could be good for some groups while costing others.…
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It’s raining this morning as I write this, but once this system moves out of the Southeast later today, we should see a dry period through the region Sunday through Wednesday. After that, the next system should start to enter the picture, although the heaviest rain will be offshore along the storm track. For once,…
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Winter barely started before North Carolina got its first major snowstorm of the season earlier this week. The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted a story about the heavy accumulations of snow that occurred in this storm. In some cases the amount of snow that fell was the same as the average annual total.…
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A recent article by Dr. Jeff Masters of Weather Underground highlights the recent high-volume rain events that have hit the US, including Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Hurricane Florence in 2018, and a rainstorm in March 2016 in Louisiana. Masters points out that these three rain events are the three highest rain volume events in US…
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The latest El Niño discussion was released today. Many of us were expecting that the Climate Prediction Center might finally call this an El Niño event and not just a watch, but today’s discussion makes it clear that we are not quite there yet. While the ocean temperatures match what we expect from an El…
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The latest Drought Monitor, issued this morning, shows that because of the persistent string of storms which have moved through the Southeast in the past few weeks, all dry conditions have been removed from the Southeast except in Florida. The Florida peninsula, which has been largely missed by all the recent storms, saw a big…
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Turbulence in the air can be scary if you are flying, especially if it gets really rough. While turbulence can feel bad, it is not usually life-threatening since most pilots will attempt to fly into smoother air as soon as they can. Turbulence is most dangerous for the flight attendants, since they are standing up…
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