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15 June 2010
Nashville, Arkansas and Oklahoma Floods- Climate Connection?
I wrote a post awhile back (See TENNESSEE FLOODS- CLIMATE RELATED?) on the possible climate connections to the Nashville flood. Since then we have had another two major events. One in Arkansas that killed 20 and just this week a deluge in Oklahoma City that caused all three major interstates to be closed and a day of rescues. As I said in the previous post, you cannot blame any one …
Hottest May On Record- NOAA and NASA
NOAA and NASA both do an independent global temp analysis. NASA released their data a couple of days ago for May. The National Climate Data Center released their May data today. The extreme warmth in the northern latitudes is expected with warming from increased greenhouse gases. Northern areas will warm faster than areas further south for several reasons, among them the ice albedo feedback. Both indicate that May 2010 was …
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.