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  • Mother’s Day tornadoes of 2008

    Pam Knox

    May 11, 2016

    Today in weather history marks the anniversary of the Mother’s Day tornado outbreak in Georgia in 2008.  At least two people were killed in the storms, which hit north and central Georgia.  You can read more about the storms from the National Weather Service Office in Peachtree City, which created the map below, and see…

    Posted in: History
  • Smoke from Alberta fires seen in satellite image

    Pam Knox

    May 11, 2016

    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…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Interesting weather images
  • “Hail Hath No Fury Like a Springtime Storm”

    Pam Knox

    May 11, 2016

    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.

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Severe
  • “An Inconvenient Truth”, 10 years later: A scorecard

    Pam Knox

    May 10, 2016

    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…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science
  • Interesting animation on global temperatures over time

    Pam Knox

    May 10, 2016

    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.…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, Interesting weather images
  • Florida avocado season gets a late start this year

    Pam Knox

    May 10, 2016

    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…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops
  • Strange weather stories

    Pam Knox

    May 9, 2016

    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!

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Severe
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