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This week the EPA removed many of their climate resources from their web page, including several that I have mentioned in this blog, such as the report on climate change indicators in the Southeast. Fortunately, a number of different groups have mirrored these sites, figuring that they would be taken down. So if you are…
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The 7-day QPF map shows that parts of the Southeast are expected to get several more inches of rain this week as a weather system stalls to our west. Mountainous areas and most of Alabama will receive the most rain. The driest area this week will be the Florida peninsula, which will struggle to receive…
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GeoAwesomeness.com posted a story about a new source of satellite data on land cover to its web site this week. It is a viewer which allows you to look at several different land cover satellites, including LandSat and MODIS and search for local coverage very quickly. I have just tried it out for a few…
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We are almost at the end of April, and a look at the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool shows that for many stations in the Southeast, the year to date temperature is the warmest on record. Many other stations are in the top two or three warmest years so far. You can try out…
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Gotta love that title! NOAA describes the current active tornado season in their latest blog at Climate.gov here. According to the article, “as of April 17, 570 tornadoes have been reported (preliminarily), which is almost a hundred more than average. The season jumped out of the gate with an incredibly active January: 134 tornadoes in…
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Many of my scientist friends read this essay by Ethan Siegel in Forbes.com and nodded our heads yes. We spend a lot of our time debating about scientific principles with both other scientists and non-scientists, often to the point of pulling our hair out. And I like my hair! This essay distills the debate into two…
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One reason for the big decrease in drought in North Carolina this week which I mentioned in my drought post earlier today was the tremendous rains that occurred in North Carolina. The Washington Post‘s Capital Weather Gang described the downpour in an article here. Raleigh received 6.68 inches over two days, the seventh highest 2-day…
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news