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NOAA’s latest global climate summary for September 2015 was released this morning. According to the report, September 2015 was the warmest September in 136 years of record, and the January through September period was also the warmest on record for the globe. Of the last nine months, seven were the warmest on record, January was…
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The USGS, working quickly, has provided a preliminary report on the South Carolina floods which describes the weather conditions that led to the flood and the consequences of the heavy rain on stream flows in the area. You can get the report at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20151201.
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What do we expect this coming winter now that the strong El Niño is here? Mike Halpert of NOAA discusses the likely conditions across the US in the Climate.gov blog post here and shows the variation of previous El Niño winters from strong to weak years. Even in the strong years, there is still quite…
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You probably could not guess it from our quiet Atlantic tropical season, but 2015 has already experienced a record number of tropical storms this year. According to Minnesota Public Radio meteorologist Paul Huttner in this blog post, this year has set new records in both number and intensity of the storms, based on extremely active Pacific…
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I ran across this useful website from Koshland Science Museum on the basics of climate science and modeling. It has an excellent short video on how climate models work. If you have wondered how climate models are used to make projections of future climate, you might find it helpful. It is at https://www.koshland-science-museum.org/explore-the-science/earth-lab/modeling. The website also…
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If you like to watch satellite loops of interesting weather, you will enjoy the submissions for the CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) for their 40th anniversary celebration. You can see them all at https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes_40th/contest/results.html.
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Blairsville Experiment Station in far north-central Georgia had their first frost of fall 2015 on October 17, when it got down to 30.4 F, according to the UGA weather network at https://www.georgiaweather.net. Blairsville is one of the coldest parts of Georgia, and thus one of the first regions in the state to get frost. I’ve gotten…