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After several years of drought, Californians were looking forward to a wet El Niño season to refill their reservoirs and recharge their water systems. But while northern California has seen much more rain than in the last few years, southern California is still suffering from a major lack of water, and drought conditions as well…
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The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites produced a 9 minute long video which show the entire year of weather as viewed by satellites. It is interesting to watch the patterns of weather change over the course of the year. You can see the narrated video as well as some other photos of weather…
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There is a good chance of severe weather for parts of the Southeast on Tuesday and Wednesday, particularly later in the day on Tuesday. The Day 2 convective forecast map from Monday night highlights the area that is most likely to be hit by tornadoes in southern Mississippi and Alabama, but many areas of the…
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Modern Farmer published an interesting short article last week about how early agricultural practices changed the local and global climate. Slash and burn techniques caused big changes in land use and injected a lot of carbon into the atmosphere, both as carbon dioxide and as black soot, both of which change the climate in different…
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EarthSky reported today on Cyclone Winston, which hit the island of Fiji over the weekend with sustained winds of 185 miles per hour and caused enormous devastation, although reports are just starting to come in. This is the strongest hurricane to ever hit Fiji and the strongest storm so far in 2016, although of course…
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The latest monthly and seasonal climate outlooks were released by the Climate Prediction Center this week. They show that warm temperatures in the upper Midwest are likely to continue for the next few months while wet conditions in the Southeast are also likely to continue; both are patterns that are strongly impacted by El Niño…
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The Washington Post published a recent article describing the importance of trees and rain forests to the global carbon system. A healthy forest pulls in carbon from the atmosphere and stores it in the form of trees, which are good for local climate conditions, ecosystem maintenance, and for some agricultural purposes. You can read the…