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CNN has a sobering video posted at https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/11/02/arctic-ice-animation-orig-bu.cnn. It shows how much the perennial sea ice has disappeared between 1984 and the present. With such big changes in the ice cover in the Arctic, no wonder the weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere are changing so much. It’s probably not surprising that at the same time…
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The Florida climate summary for October 2016 is now available. You can access it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-october-2016c.
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Some new research at the University of Georgia indicates that sands from the Sahara, blown across the Atlantic, can do more than suppress hurricane formation. Researchers there have found that a genus of marine bacteria called Vibrio feed off the Saharan dust, leading to large blooms of the potentially harmful pathogen in ocean surface water. Vibrio…
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NPR had a story yesterday about the damage caused to beaches in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. According to the story, “the U.S. Geological Survey has found that the storm washed over and damaged 15 percent of sand dunes on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, 30 percent along Georgia’s coastline and 42 percent of the dunes on South…
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Wired has a good and basic story about how NOAA produces La Niña watches and why they sometimes flip-flop on what they are expecting. You can read it at https://www.wired.com/2016/10/la-ninas-not-whatever-lets-la-nina-winter/. https://www.wired.com/2016/10/la-ninas-not-whatever-lets-la-nina-winter/
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Dr. Brenda Ortiz of Auburn University announced today the release of a new iBook on climate and crops in the Southeast. I don’t have the iBook app downloaded on my smartphone and tablet yet, but when I do I will be sure to get a copy of this new book. I am still looking to…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina published their monthly climate summary for October 2016 (very quickly!). You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=218&h=5666e5c1. Expect the Georgia one later in the week.
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