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The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation

Sometimes it feels to me that people think climate change just means more beach days. But by just a little exercise of your imagination you can understand it actually means more famine, more war, more people fleeing across borders, mass extinctions, wholesale shifts in landscapes... This today from Nature Communications The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation Published: 20 August 2018 Abstract Accelerated warming in the Arctic, as compared to the rest of the globe, might have profound impacts on mid-latitude weather. Most studies analyzing Arctic links to mid-latitude weather focused on winter, yet recent summers have seen strong reductions in sea-ice extent and snow cover, a weakened equator-to-pole thermal gradient and associated weakening of the mid-latitude circulation. We review the scientific evidence behind three leading hypotheses on the influence of Arctic changes on mid-latitude summer weather: Weakened storm tracks, shifte...

Welcome and a Little About Me

It had to happen sooner or later. Well, let's say more likely sooner. I have been a weather geek for a long time, well all my life, actually! All of us have some interest in the weather, right? At a minimum we want to know what today's weather will be like before we decide what to wear or what to do. For me, it's that too, but also my geeky nature also likes to gather statistics. Yes, there are such people! I have had indoor/outdoor thermometers for decades, and have long wanted to get a more "pro" weather station that also records and shares the data collected for weather conditions with the ability to publish the data to the internet. It's part of the IOT (Internet of Things) revolution, which is, in my opinion, getting out of control; I mean, even my washer and dryer and garage door opener can connect to the internet. Ridiculous, and I haven't connected them, by the way. But when it comes to a little bit of "citizen science", it makes se...

Humidity Stats for November 2018 University Town Center Irvine

Humidity Stats for November 2018 as recorded by my AcuRite Pro Weather Station Highlights for November: 99% humidity recorded on multiple nights as is common for our marine climate Lowest humidity readings of 28% recorded on two days Date High % Low % Mean % Avg % Range % 11/1/2018 99 25 62 70 74 11/2/2018 93 21 57 62 72 11/3/2018 99 25 62 72 74 11/4/2018 99 39 69 82 60 11/5/2018 99 64 82 89 35 11/6/2018 99 58 79 83 41 11/7/2018 99 60 80 86 39 11/8/2018 99 11 55 62 88 11/9/2018 49 7 28 17 42 11/10/2018 74 15 45 48 59 11/11/2018 99 10 55 52 89 11/12/2018 62 8 35 24 54 11/13/2018 47 9 28 26 38 11/14/2018 62 11 37 35 51 11/15/2018 73 12 43 48 61 11/16/2018 95 25 60 70 70 11/17/2018 99 57 78 87 42 11/18/2018 99 49 74 83 50 11/19/2018 99 62 81 86 37 11/20/2018 99 46 73 85 53 11/21/2018 99 56 78 85 43 11/22/2018 99 64 82 90 35 11/23/2018 99 64 82 89 35 11/24/2018 99 65 82 90 34 11/25/2018 99 54 77 88 45 11/26/2018 99 24 62 75 75 11/27/2018 99 35 67 77 64...

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