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Okay, I admit it. I put this in the blog partly just because this little guy is so cute. But the story that NOAA tells about packrats like this one is important because it shows one way that climatologists determine what the climate was like as much as ten thousand years ago. Packrats, NOAA tells…
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The strange combination of floods in California and very warm conditions out east are causing problems for some agricultural producers around the country. The Packer noted here that the heavy rain in California is delaying harvest of some strawberries and citrus, and is making vegetable planting problematic. Many fields are covered by water and berries…
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Here’s a really interesting story about how extreme weather patterns in one area can lead to a catastrophe far away. We are linked together by the ocean of air that flows around the planet, and what happens in one place can affect things far away. Here in the Southeast we see this with El Niño…
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Travel and Leisure magazine published an interesting article this week on some research recently published by Swiss scientists in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal The Cryosphere. In the article, the scientists show that the best case scenario, where nations around the world follow the Paris climate agreements to limit greenhouse warming to 2 degrees Centigrade, the…
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If you’ve noticed that temperatures this February are unusually warm, you’re not alone. Many parts of the US are well above normal in temperature, with many stations this week setting new daily record high temperatures. Some areas are 20 or more degrees above normal for this time of year, and an unofficial station in Texas…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows the reintroduction of extreme drought into west-central Alabama and the expansion of moderate drought in Virginia, the western Carolinas, and northwest Alabama. Florida’s dry conditions remain unchanged, although rain since the cut-off date of Tuesday may improve things next week.
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iWeatherNet.com has a good summary of the Southeast tornado outbreak of January 21-23, 2017 on their website. It lists the storms and provides some maps of storm tracks. This outbreak was the second deadliest in January for the Southeast in recorded history. You can view the report at https://www.iweathernet.com/thunderstorms/january-21st-23rd-tornado-outbreak-second-largest-on-record-in-southeast-u-s.