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Did you ever wonder why the season between summer and winter has two names? Which one do you usually use? Atlas Obscura has an interesting story today about why the September through November season has two distinct names–“fall” and “autumn”. You can read all about it here.
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NOAA’s Climate.gov posted an interesting discussion of drought in the High Plains region of the US and how climatologists and stakeholders are working together to improve their resilience to dry conditions. The scarcity of water there makes it especially important for them to plan for water shortages and their impact on agriculture. You can read…
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The National Weather Service has posted their latest YouTube video showing the weekly weather briefing from November 2. This is a regular video production and very useful if you want a look ahead to the next seven days of weather. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYswZO9uEQ8&feature=em-subs_digest.
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=245&h=5666e5c1. It features observations from their ECONet stations, the local meso-network of automated monitoring stations.
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Global Weather & Climate Center has a good short summary article about the impacts that weather and climate have on wine production. It is a compilation of information from Forbes, Journal of Wine Economics, the Denver Post, and Earth magazine. You can read it at https://www.globalweatherclimatecenter.com/climate/weather-climate-and-wine-forbes-journal-of-wine-economics-the-denver-post-earth-magazine.
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A massive new report published by the federal government on Friday looks at causes of warming climate and concludes that it is mainly caused by humans rather than due to natural causes like solar variability. As you can imagine, there have been a number of stories published in the news describing these results. Here are…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that we will get light amounts of rain this week. For most of the region, that means less than 0.75 inches. After a mostly dry weekend, rain amounts should be heaviest Tuesday through Thursday but again, total accumulations will be light for most folks. Heaviest amounts will be…
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