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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…
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The rain in parts of the Southeast experienced in the last week put a significant dent in drought conditions in Virginia, South Carolina, and especially North Carolina in this week’s Drought Monitor. Southeast Florida also had their dry conditions wiped away by recent rains there. The extreme drought in northeast Georgia was also whittled away.…
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a request for input into the Georgia Climate Research Roadmap, which is an effort to identify and rank “Georgia’s Top 40” climate research questions. According to their web site, this process begins with you: they are asking experts from across the state to submit candidate questions pertinent to…
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Today is the sixth anniversary of one of the worst tornado outbreaks on record, rivalling the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974. Many large and horrifically damaging tornadoes occurred from Mississippi to Tennessee, destroying homes and businesses and killing and injuring many. Here are some selected video remembrances of the storms. Weather Channel video: Anatomy…