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The latest monthly climate summary for Florida for June 2017 is now available on the Florida Climate Center website. You can read all about it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=511.
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Nine out of every ten people that get hit by lightning survive, according to a post today by The Week magazine. But their health afterwards can be significantly changed, and even their personalities can be affected by the trauma as well as the rewiring of their internal electrical circuits (which is really what the nervous…
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Do you know someone who thinks that summer is warm because it is when the earth is the closest to the sun in its orbit? You might be surprised at how many people have this misconception. In fact, today is the sun’s aphelion, the day on which the earth is at its farthest point from…
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The preliminary climate summary for the Southeast from the High Plains Regional Climate Center shows that for most areas of the Southeast, June was wetter and cooler than normal. This is the first time since January 2016 that many areas have had monthly temperature departures that were below normal. The cooler temperatures were due in…
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An article published this week in The Conversation pointed out that tropical zones on Earth are currently expanding, and that could mean problems for Australia among other places. Here in the Southeast, most of us are not quite in the tropical zone now, but if that zone expands, it is likely to change the climate…
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Since we are now entering the heart of hurricane and flood season, when evacuations may become necessarily, it’s a good idea to think about your evacuation plans. FEMA is a great source of information on how to plan for an evacuation (for example, see https://www.ready.gov/evacuating-yourself-and-your-family), but I thought this article in Little Things did a…
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Two paleoclimatologists at the University of North Carolina have found a way to track a storm—or, at least, track the average of all storms across the season—325 years in the past, according to an article in the latest The Atlantic magazine. The scientists used tree ring data from ponderosa pines in the Pacific Northwest to…