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2020 Climate Digest

Three phenomena dominated the Climate of 2020: wildfires, hurricanes, and the COVID-19 pandemic. When Earth rotated into 2020, bush fires were raging in Australia. Smoke rose into the stratosphere and circled the globe for months. Later in the year, the … Continue reading

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100 years of SST anomalies

This animation reveals long-term trends in our oceans via a NOAA dataset depicting January sea surface temperature anomalies over the time period from 1921 through 2020. Anomalies are departures from average, in this case the average is from 1854 to … Continue reading

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Autumn 2019 Climate Digest

As a reminder, autumn in the Northern Hemisphere is spring in the Southern Hemisphere. But except for the notable cool temperatures over parts of North America, it was warmer than normal worldwide. In fact, global land and ocean surface temperatures … Continue reading

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