• The WaterDeeply web site has a new article describing the ravages that multiple years of drought are taking on forests and trees in California.  According to the article 120 million trees there are at risk of dying due to the severe drought.  This is a huge concern because of its potential for making wildfires in…

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  • The State Climate Office of North Carolina published a report on the recent snow and severe weather that hit North Carolina in the last couple of weeks.  You can access it on their blog at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=177&h=5666e5c1.

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  • It’s halfway through February, and the maps so far show that for most of the Southeast, temperatures are cooler than normal by a few degrees and precipitation is wetter than normal, at least in the band where El Niño effects are most often seen.  The temperature departure for the winter as a whole is still…

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  • My alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a photo contest each year for the best weather-related photographs taken by alums.  You might enjoy looking at this year’s set.  You can find them at https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/news/articles/8497. For more great photographs of clouds, visit https://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org.

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  • BBC News published a news story this weekend discussing the likely changes we are likely to see in US agriculture if warming trends continue.  The story was based on a recently published study of how extreme events like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s would affect agriculture if it happened in a warmer climate in…

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  • When scientists talk about a climate that is getting warmer, they often talk about 2 degrees of change as being enough to cause irreversible changes in the earth’s climate system.  But what makes “2 degrees” important?  It’s true that a 2 degree change in daily temperature is barely noticeable in the day to day variability…

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  • The sound of the wind is described by many names around the world.  This essay on the names of the desert wind is a couple of years old but I think a very poetic way to describe the weather that dominates an area with little rain.  You can read it at https://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/inyo/the-hundred-names-of-the-desert-wind.html

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