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From the inbox: All classes on main campus are canceled for Tuesday, Oct. 30. Current weather patterns predict heavy snowfall associated with the remnants of Hurricane Sandy to occur through 1 p.m. Staff should follow the university's adverse weather policy. I'll be working at home today since I am neither a critical nor essential employee. I…
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Happy Peak Atlantic Hurricane Day* (Red are named storms and yellow are hurricanes). *And happy 11th birthday to Official Only Son of Env-Econ.
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Tim, please explain: The worst U.S. drought in more than five decades is forecast to raise farm profits to a record $122.2 billion this year as higher prices and insurance payments outweigh crop losses from the dry conditions. Income will rise 3.7 percent from a revised $117.9 billion in 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
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Lynne Kiesling: This summer, corn prices are high. Drought, extreme weather, and other factors combine to increase corn prices, and one of those factors is the federal ethanol mandate/renewable fuels requirement implemented over 20 years ago (as an oxygenate requirement) and extended in 2005. Roger Pielke Jr. points to a Purdue research paper that suggests…
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Your daily demand and supply: The latest outlook released by the National Weather Service on Thursday forecasts increasingly dry conditions over much of the nation’s breadbasket, a development that could lead to higher food prices and shipping costs as well as reduced revenues in areas that count on summer tourism. About the only relief in…
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The Weather Channel is buying Weather Underground: The controversy illustrates the deep national divide between those people who just want to know if it’s going to rain, and people who really, really, care about the data underlying the weather. via www.nytimes.com Deep national divide?
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The national temperature of 57.1 degrees F during spring was 5.2 degrees F above the long-term average, besting the previous warmest spring of 1910 by 2.0 degrees F. This marked the largest temperature departure from average of any season on record for the contiguous United States. The spring of 2012 was the culmination of the…
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March 2012 will go down as the warmest March in the United States since record-keeping began in 1895, NOAA said Monday. In addition, the three-month period of January, February and March was the warmest first quarter ever recorded in the Lower 48 states. The average was 42 degrees Fahrenheit, a whopping 6 degrees above the…
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From the ASU weather cam: Last year my kids missed something like 26 school days because of snow. This year it has been something like 3.
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