25 February 2012
Extreme weather is normal, but increasing amounts of it is not.
Posted by Dan Satterfield
It’s been a very mild winter over most of the U.S. and Canada, and meteorologists are increasingly asked if the extreme weather is due to climate change. I was asked to write something about this for Atmos-News which is produced by NCAR (the National Center for Atmospheric Research). Click on the image below to read it, and I hope you will find it interesting.
Also in this edition of AtmosNews is an excellent illustration of the difference between weather and climate.
Watch the video below to see it.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
