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  • Very rare tropical cyclone Chapala to hit Arabian peninsula

    Pam Knox

    October 30, 2015

    A rare occurrence of a tropical cyclone (equivalent to a hurricane in the Atlantic) making landfall on the Arabian peninsula is expected to occur this week as Chapala moves west towards Yemen and Oman.  Some areas of the desert countries could receive up to 8 years’ worth of rain in 1 to 2 days.  Chapala…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Interesting weather images, Sources of weather and climate data, Tropical weather, Uncategorized
  • Wet and dry extremes across the Southeast in October

    Pam Knox

    October 29, 2015

    With just a couple of (mostly dry) days left in October, the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives map shows the huge variation in rainfall across the Southeast.  Charleston and Columbia have set new records for October rainfall in the large storm that hit them early in the month.  By comparison, a number of stations in…

    Posted in: Climate summaries, Sources of weather and climate data
  • Wet Sunday through Tuesday for parts of Southeast

    Pam Knox

    October 29, 2015

    The latest model forecasts for Quantitative Precipitation show a bulls’ eye of rain in Alabama and Georgia lasting from Saturday night until Tuesday.  Rain associated with a slowly moving low pressure center will douse the area with up to several inches of rain.  So make the most of this weekend–Friday and Saturday should be dry…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks
  • “Eastern US to bask in unusually warm conditions to start November”

    Pam Knox

    October 29, 2015

    The Washington Post‘s Capital Weather Gang noted in a post today that unusually warm weather is expected to occur across most of the eastern US for the next week, including the start to November.  This is due to a strong ridge of high pressure that will remain stationary much of the week before collapsing to…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate outlooks
  • Southeast Climate Consortium fall meeting highlights now available

    Pam Knox

    October 28, 2015

    The Southeast Climate Consortium held their fall meeting in Athens GA on October 19-20.  They have just posted photos and presentations from this meeting on their web site.  You can visit https://www.seclimate.org/ to see the posters and presentation slides as well as a list of participants and other meeting information.

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news
  • Images of Greenland ice melt from a drone

    Pam Knox

    October 28, 2015

    The New York Times published some spectacular pictures of the ice melting in Greenland this summer which were taken by a drone.  You can see these images at https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/insider/a-drones-vantage-point-of-a-melting-greenland.html?_r=0 and read more about how the video was taken at the Huffington Post here. If you are interested in why the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is…

    Posted in: Climate science, Interesting weather images
  • Is this the last year that carbon dioxide concentrations are below 400 ppm?

    Pam Knox

    October 28, 2015

    Earlier this week Andrew Revkin of the New York Times posted a blog article discussing the latest carbon dioxide measurement from Mauna Loa, where records have been kept since the International Geophysical Year of 1958.  The October 19 measurement shows that the concentration of CO2 is now 398.08 parts per million.  As Northern Hemisphere winter…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, Crops
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