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A new study in Nature magazine describes a new very-long-term temperature record assembled by a scientist at Stanford University from 61 different proxy climate records. Proxy records are climate records based on things like tree rings, ocean sediments and ice cores which change depending on climate factors like temperature. The new record shows temperatures for…
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After yesterday’s post on the record number of days with a warm night in New Orleans, some of my meteorologist friends and I have been discussing why there might be such a drastic change. My friend Scott Lindstrom from the University of Wisconsin-Madison posted the graph below, which shows a step function change in the…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has a new product available: a summary of summer 2016, published as a colorful and concise two-page fact sheet. You can view it at https://www.sercc.com/SERCC_quarterly_report_summer_2016.pdf. It describes the general weather pattern for the season as well as impacts on agriculture as well as flood and drought events.
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The Capital Weather Gang posted an interesting story today about the unprecedented heat record that New Orleans has experienced this hot summer. On 43 nights this year, the temperature did not drop below 80 F. This blows the previous record of 13 nights in 2010 out of the water. Unusually warm nights are associated with…
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One question that folks who are skeptical about global warming have is whether or not natural solar activity could be affecting the rise in temperature seen in recent decades. A number of research programs have attempted to determine if there is a relationship between sunspots or cosmic radiation and Earth’s temperature. This recent article from…
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Growing Georgia posted a story today on the state of Georgia’s upcoming pecan harvest. After Hurricane Hermine tracked through the southeastern part of the state, producers found many damaged trees and reductions in the number of nuts on the trees due to the winds from the storm. But University of Georgia Cooperative Extension pecan specialist Lenny…
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The latest weather forecast models are now showing the advance of cooler, fall-like air into the Southeast in the next few days following the slow passage of a cold front through the region starting on Monday night. By late Wednesday and into Thursday and Friday we could see temperatures below normal for the first time…
Posted in: Climate outlooks