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EarthSky posted a striking image from NASA’s Aqua satellite of a low pressure area traveling across Canada this week which shows smoke from the Alberta wild fires entrained into the clouds. You can read about it here. The CoCoRaHS blog also has some interesting information on the climate conditions which helped set up the conditions…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has a timely write-up of the recent hail storms that hit parts of NC on May 2, written by Corey Davis. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=190&h=5666e5c1.
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Love it or hate it, the Al Gore movie “An Inconvenient Truth” brought a lot of awareness about changes in climate over time (both natural and caused by humans) to the public arena. It came out ten years ago, making a large number of prognostications about what the future climate would look like. Science News…
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A lot of my friends have posted links to this spiral animation of global temperature anomalies over time. The Climate Lab Book shows how temperatures have changed from 1850 to the present using a spiral graph instead of a linear graph. You can really see how the temperatures have increased over time in this animation.…
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The Packer noted in an article this week that the Florida avocado season is off to a slow start this year and is running about three weeks behind normal. While they didn’t name a specific climate component to the late start, they did note that low quantities of rain actually made the quality of the…
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I have seen some strange weather in my life, but I still enjoy reading stories about wacky weather others have seen. This blog post by Jon Erdman on Weather Underground lists 35 different strange weather stories that the author has seen in his lifetime. Hope you enjoy it!
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US from NOAA was published late last week. It shows that the average temperature for April for the contiguous US was the 18th warmest on record, while Alaska continued to see record warmth. April was warm enough that the January-April average temperature for the lower 48 was the…
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