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The WunderBlog has an excellent retrospective of the last several years of the drought in California and how the last very wet season has knocked out the drought in a lot of the state. But they do note that even with all of the rain, it will take a long time for the aquifers to…
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ScienceAlert.com posted an article this week on a huge crater that has formed in the Siberian permafrost region since the 1960s and is rapidly growing. As it does, it has revealed ancient forests, carcasses of mammoths and ancient horses, and what could be 200,000 years of climate records. The records come in the form of…
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I noticed when I drove home from work in Watkinsville GA today (just outside Athens) that the peach orchard on the university farm is in bloom (and no, this picture is not from Watkinsville-we’re a lot flatter). This is about a month earlier than usual, which is consistent with observations I’ve previously mentioned from the…
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My Facebook feed exploded yesterday once news of actor Bill Paxton’s demise following heart surgery was made public. Bill Paxton was a well-regarded character actor who was in many famous films, including “Alien” and “Titanic” and in the HBO series “Big Love.” (Interestingly, he was in Dallas and saw President Kennedy earlier in the day…
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I have never eaten a pawpaw, and have never even seen one, but I am fascinated by this story by Public Radio International about this native fruit, which used to be found in northern parts of the Southeast and across the eastern US. I understand that the fruit does not transport or store well, which…
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People have been asking me if this is a record-setting winter for temperature. Using the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool at https://www.sercc.com/perspectives?user=true, you can look at maps which show the rankings for the month or season to date. With just a couple of days left to go in the season, the maps show that while…
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you can’t help but have noticed the unusually warm spring we are experiencing in the Southeast so far this year (and even then, the rock would probably be getting warm!). Observations from the National Phenology Network indicate that we are running 3-4 weeks ahead of normal based on…
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