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Category: Weather
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From the inbox: Good Morning, Due to overnight snowfall creating icy road conditions in many parts of the district this morning, schools in Watauga County will be closed for students on Tuesday, February 3rd. It will be an Annual Leave Day for 10 month employees. The Holiday/ Snowday Program at HP is scheduled to open…
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NYC Mayor: “The furious hoarfrost bearing down upon us knows neither mercy nor reason, and all within the five boroughs will perish, cowering in their brittle dwellings … This shall be a tempest the likes of which has never been glimpsed by man or beast. Clutch your babes close to your breast and take small…
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I've been noticing them all the time! The number of tornadoes recorded by the National Climatic Data Center has increased in recent years, but that doesn’t mean there have been more twisters. “The changes there are huge but almost certainly due to reporting changes,” said Harold Brooks, a scientist with the National Severe Storms Laboratory…
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Storm clouds in Iowa (from a recent road trip). Photo Credit: Official Second Oldest Daughter of Env-Econ
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Photo Credit: Me (in Omaha, Nebraska–more details later).
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Don't you hate it when the weatherman gets it wrong? Apparently, so does Kim Jong Un. According to state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, the North Korean leader has been touring meteorological facilities in his country complaining that there are "too many incorrect" weather forecasts. As further proof of the supreme leader's extreme displeasure, the Rodong Sinmun…
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Seeing this post on Vox got me thinking – I wonder how housing prices vary in response to disaster risk when the risk is forecasted over a longer term rather than a shorter term? I've read a bit of the literature on the housing price response to hurricane risk and climate change-based flood risk (from…
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In the mail yesterday–get yours today (it will help our publisher recoup our whopping advance):
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