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Today marks the record coldest day in North Carolina, with a record set on Mount Mitchell back on January 21, 1985. Jason Sandford wrote an interesting story about the weather record on that date, which had a high temperature of -4 degrees and a low of -34 F. You can read more about the cold…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that the Southeast is getting and should continue to get quite a bit of rain in the next week. Some areas may get almost 4 inches! Southern Florida will get far less, but since this is their dry season, that is not unexpected. This is likely to cause…
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The CoCoRaHS blog this week has a good description of how recent rains in California have affected the drought there. While northern California is now drought-free, southern California is still in drought, with a few areas even still in exceptional drought. You can read the blog at https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2017/01/no-such-thing-as-free-lunch.html.
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AgWeb reprinted a story from Bloomberg News this week describing some troubling results of a study by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Chicago. The study shows that with the warmer temperatures expected from global warming, yields of corn and soybeans could drop significantly. According to the article,…
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In addition to the story I posted last week about weather on Inauguration Day, here are two more compilations you might enjoy if you are a history buff. Looks like rain for today’s event! At least the odds are 70 to 30 in favor of rain, and historically 43 percent of January 20’s have had…
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Many of you older folk like me probably remember the cold years in the late 1970s. In Michigan, where I was living, the winters and especially the Januarys were particularly bad, with large snowstorms that dumped feet of snow in some locations. Well, one cold outbreak was so strong that 40 years ago today, in…
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Meteorologists use Doppler radar to track precipitation across the country. It provides not only information about falling rain and snow, but also a sense of the direction of the winds, which can help provide information about potential severe weather such as tornadoes. But Doppler radar can also track other things in the sky, such as…