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Wind energy is of limited use in the Southeast, where winds tend to be light for much of the year when high pressure is sitting over the region. The most common places to find wind towers are along coastlines or in mountainous areas along ridges. If you are interested in finding more information about wind…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that abnormally dry conditions have slightly expanded in Alabama this week. Alabama has missed a lot of the rain that other parts of the Southeast have experienced in the past month, leading to the drier conditions. The rest of the Southeast is unchanged from last week. Wet…
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What makes weather oppressive to you? For most people, it is probably a combination of heat and humidity. Climatologist Brian Brettschneider has put together a Forbes blog post which describes how he calculated how he used climate data to calculate which parts of the US have the most days with “oppressive” weather. As you can…
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As the Arctic warms up and sea ice melts, it is changing the large-scale weather patterns that help move storms around. These steering currents affect the movement of mid-latitude low pressure centers, but also help push around tropical storms and hurricanes. A new study of the impacts of this shift in the big atmospheric wave…
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Southeast Farm Press posted an interesting story this week about Brangus cattle that are currently being studied at the University of Florida. The cattle are better adapted to heat than other varieties, which makes them ideal for the warmer climate in the Southeast. They eat better and put on more weight, which improves their marketability.…
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If we want to understand the climate of the future, it is important that we first understand the climate of the past. Unfortunately, weather records only go back about 150 years. To look climates on longer time frames, we need the help of paleoclimatologists who look at proxy data like tree rings, lake and ocean…
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If you have been following the news out of Florida, you know that they have been experiencing severe marine devastation from something called a “red tide”, which is a toxic algal bloom along the coast which kills fish and sickens humans and animals that swim in it. The red tide itself is not that unusual,…