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The Adventures in Mapping blog has a story this week about how the season migration in tornado events can be mapped just like the migration of wildebeest or other wandering animal or bird species. Tornadoes undergo a seasonal cycle of occurrence that is ultimately related to the sun’s angle, which changes over the course of…
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The latest NOAA outlook for April 2018 shows that no strong tendencies in either temperature or precipitation are expected this month in the Southeast. There is a small area which is leaning towards above-normal temperature in the southern half of the Florida peninsula and a slight tendency towards cold weather in Virginia but otherwise the…
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The latest monthly summary of climate conditions in March 2018 is now available from the State Climate Office of North Carolina. Like most of the Southeast, March temperatures this year were colder than February’s. Precipitation was variable across the state, which helped reduce dry conditions in some areas. You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=257&h=5666e5c1.
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Here’s an excellent discussion of recent solar activity and the grand solar minimum which will be occurring shortly from my friend John Feldt of Blue Water Outlook, who has given me permission to share it. Solar activity has been rapidly decreasing since around 1980. The current cycle, Solar Cycle 24, has been marked by the…
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Molly Samuel had a story this week on WABE 90.1 radio describing a new study that shows that “Over the past few decades, forests in the eastern U.S. have changed in response to changes in the climate. A recent study describes how as climate alters forests, those same forests then have an effect on the climate. The Southeast…
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The Climate Learning Network is hosting a webinar on April 12 at 1 pm EDT. Here is the description of the webinar: “A collaboration between the Climate Learning Network and the Climate Science Initiative, this webinar draws on results from two studies (conducted with researchers Kaila Thorn, Allison Chatrchyan, Daniel Tobin, and Rama Radhakrishna) of…
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The Global Weather and Climate Center posted a video this week from NASA showing a loop of the movement of the green vegetation bands across the globe with the seasons. You can really see the shift of the plants on the land and in the ocean as the sun moves north and then south again.…