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Food and Wine reported this week on a new study by Harvard’s School of Public Health which looked at the nutritional content of crops eaten around the world under higher concentrations of carbon dioxide, which is increasing in the atmosphere. The study showed that as carbon dioxide continues to increase, the nutritional content of many…
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Did you know that an eclipse that passed through the Southeast in 1900 helped scientists understand how weather is affected by the blocking of sunlight during the eclipse? Here is a great story about how they picked the spot to observe it and what they found from the National Centers for Environmental Information: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/1900-total-solar-eclipse.
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The latest Drought Monitor map shows that due to extremely dry conditions along the Piedmont and surrounding regions in Virginia, North Carolina and far northeast South Carolina, abnormally dry conditions have expanded. The rest of the Southeast has received abundant rain and no dry conditions are present.
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their monthly climate summary for July 2017. In it they discuss the record dryness that has hit parts of the Piedmont, leading to abnormally dry conditions. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=238&h=5666e5c1.
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After a month of below normal temperatures, the state has rebounded to mostly a little above normal conditions. Most of the state was also drier than normal with the exception of the southeastern counties, which were well above normal due to several rain events in the region. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 81.2…
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The National Environmental Education Foundation published a short report this week on how changes in climate could affect agriculture in the future. While carbon dioxide is necessary for plants to grow and increased carbon dioxide does increase the growth of plants (both beneficial crops and weeds), it also can affect the length of the growing…
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For those of you who like to look at weather that is more than just local, here is a story about some Spanish meteorologists who are providing information on current Mars weather conditions. While they don’t do it every day, they are allowing us on Earth to learn more about the Martian atmosphere from the…