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According to my friend John Feldt of Blue Water Outlook, we are entering the time of year which is historically the cloudiest for the majority of the United States. Where I grew up in Michigan and Wisconsin, late fall and early winter was typically the cloudiest, in part due to the passage of frequent low…
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You may have heard the the recent trend to warmer temperatures across the US is affecting the range of native birds as well as different tree species across the country. But how much are they changing? You can use the NOAA Climate Toolkit to explore those changes in their atlas for birds and trees. You…
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Reports on damage caused by the wind and rain of Hurricane Irma are still coming in, and they look bad. Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about one strawberry farmer’s impacts on his fields from the ravaging wind, which tore out most of his plastic sheeting, and heavy rains, which eroded…
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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.
Posted in: Climate summaries