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December 2016 was once again much hotter than normal across the state, with some areas over six degrees above normal. Rainfall was highly variable this month, with the northern half of the state quite dry while much of the southern half was inundated with heavy rain, particularly on December 4 to 6. In Atlanta, the…
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I saw this article posted on Facebook by a friend earlier this week. You might enjoy it. Be sure to read it all the way to the end and then back again. The cleverly-written article was written by Michael Liebrich and is entitled “It’s a new year and time to face reality“. I’m reproducing this…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their latest climate summary, for December 2016. It also contains an update on La Nina. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=224&h=5666e5c1.
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In view of the chance of snow or ice in parts of the Southeast this weekend, the Weather Channel has posted a story describing what you need to get snow or ice in the Southeast and why it’s so hard to predict. Snow in most of the Southeast (except for Florida and immediately along the…
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Many of you know that one factor that may have affected the recent presidential election is the number of fake news stories that were sent out via social media like Facebook. This week has been an example of a related issue, fake weather news. My Facebook feed has been buzzing the last few days about…
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A good science lesson from recently retired Milwaukee meteorologist Vince Condella (a friend of mine from grad school): It’s that time of year again, one of the great paradoxes of nature. On Wednesday, January 4, at 7:18 a.m. Arizona time, 8:18 a.m. in Wisconsin, the Earth reaches Perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun during the…
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Here’s a website which lists sources of information on weather and climate in the National Weather Service’s Southern Region. It includes a number of decision support tools, data sets, and other information for areas from New Mexico through Georgia and Florida. You can see it at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/rcsd/southern. If you are in the Carolinas, you can replace…