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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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In honor of the holiday today, I am taking the day off to spend with my family. Hope you are doing the same!
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While we have been dry here in the Southeast, the region to our west has been inundated by heavy rains, leading to problems getting into the fields to plant soybeans and cotton. The rainfall map below shows the 30-day departure from normal precipitation, including the soggy mess over east Texas and parts of Louisiana. You…