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The CoCoRaHS monitoring network (that’s Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network) has a new kind of data that you can provide to help farmers, water managers, government agencies, and others keep track of your local conditions, even where there is no good weather station data available. The data they are collecting is called “Condition…
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Zillow.com posted an interesting story this week which shows the potential loss of properties if sea level rises an average of 6 feet by 2100. Of course we don’t know for sure that it will rise six feet, and certainly the rise in sea level won’t be uniform across the coasts because of local contributing…
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While the tropics have quieted down quite a bit from their earlier spate of activity, it’s important to remember that the official end of the Atlantic tropical season is November 30, and that we still have almost a month to go before it ends (and some storms have occurred outside the regular season, for that…
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I’ve seen an interesting story this week in a couple of news outlets describing a recent study which linked volcanic eruptions at high latitudes to the flood climatology of the Nile and also to uprisings in Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra. Using ice corp data and climate modeling, scientists were able to link low…
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In talks I have given and in conversations with other scientists, I’ve discussed the likelihood that future wars may be fought not over property or other causes but over water. In the Southeast, we’ve seen lawsuits over who has the right to use water and who decides how much (which I won’t get into because…
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Business Insider had an interesting story earlier this year about how domestication changed five different popular foods from something barely recognizable to something delicious. Check it out and see what your favorite food looked like before scientists and farmers worked their magic at https://www.businessinsider.com/common-foods-before-and-after-domestication-2016-2.
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Rain of three inches or more is coming to parts of the Southeast over the next three days as a strong cold front approaches from the west and passes through the area. The heaviest rain will occur in Alabama and points west but most of the region should see at least an inch of rain…
Posted in: Climate outlooks