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NOAA released their annual “State of the Climate” report today for 2015, and it confirms that 2015 was the warmest year ever recorded on Earth. This year’s warmth was helped by the strong El Niño which also warmed the Pacific Ocean. You can read about it in NOAA’s Climate.gov newsletter here. You can see a…
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The National Hurricane Center has just announced that they will begin issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Earl, currently located in the western Caribbean Sea and moving west towards Mexico. It is not expected to affect the Southeast or the rest of the US. You can get more information at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov or at https://www.spaghettimodels.com.
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To understand how common crops respond to changes in climate, some researchers at the University of Minnesota have built a sophisticated climate-controlled laboratory for studying how crops like corn respond to changes in temperature, carbon dioxide concentration, and rainfall. I was amazed at how carefully they had to put together the lab, for example in…
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You can read the climate summary for July from the Florida State Climatologist at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-july-2016.
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You can read the latest summary from the Office of the State Climatologist in North Carolina at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=201&h=5666e5c1.
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Virtually all of the Southeast was warmer and drier than normal in July 2016, according to maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. The precipitation deficit is even more striking when you look at the percentage of normal and see that large chunks of the region got less than 50% of their normal rainfall.…
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the devastating flash flood that hit the Big Thompson canyon in Colorado, killing 144 people and causing tremendous damage to the area on that Saturday evening in 1976. The flood was not well predicted due to the high elevation, which reduced radar visibility of the storm that funneled all…