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The Climate Corporation published an article last week describing the impacts of an El Niño on yields of corn and soybeans in the Midwest. Their analysis showed that El Niño has little impact on yields in that region. But how about the Southeast? While we have much smaller acreage planted in those crops, the yields…
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Weather Underground posted a story today about how one winery owner in Virginia uses a personal weather station to help manage his vineyards. It shows the benefits of having hyper-local weather data so you know exactly what is happening in your own fields. You can read the story here. Weather Underground collects weather data from many…
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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…
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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.…