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Investigation 99L has confounded forecasters’ attempts to figure out when, where and even if it is going to develop into a tropical storm, much less where it might be going. Originally hurricane forecasts predicted that it would organize into a tropical depression and storm and then cross southern Florida. But the storm development has been…
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The Packer reported this week that Louisiana sweet potato growers are waiting to find out how much damage the recent flooding rains has caused to their crops. The unprecedented floods have made it impossible for them to even get into the fields to determine how severe the damage is. And unfortunately the rain keeps on…
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Scientists have recently identified the oldest tree in Europe as a Bosnian pine growing in Greece which has been measured to be at least 1,075 years old based on tree rings. While old trees are more common in the US, they are rare in Europe because it has been populated so long, and exposure to…
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In the news today I heard that the FDA is recommending that we test all blood donations for the Zika virus, which is carried by mosquitoes and can cause severe birth defects in babies if the mother gets infected during pregnancy. Zika is just one of several severe diseases that is carried by mosquitoes in…
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The use of small multiple images is one that allows you to look at changes in the individual images differently since the format of each image is the same. I love this collection of small multiples of global temperature because not only does it show changes in temperature over time (see how warm the earth…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced that fact sheets for each state describing how climate change is affect that state are now available. You can see the list and download them at https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts/state-impact-factsheets.html.
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NOAA announced that they have new and expanded tables of normal temperature and precipitation values now available on their web site. Typically, climatologists consider 30 year averages to be “normal” climate conditions, and they are updated every ten years. The current 30-year normal period is 1981-2010. But some groups like utilities want normals over different…