UMass Climatologist Michael Rawlins discusses the recent unusual weather, with a warmer than normal winter and spring, and what it all may mean.
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Here in Amherst, Massachusetts we are fortunate to have one of the longest instrumental records of temperature and precipitation dating back to 1836. According to Bradley et al. (1987), it is largely due to the efforts of the Snell family who set up and maintained a weather station from 1836 to...
The relatively dry winter and warm spring temperatures are causing some worry among many, from farmers to forecasters, about dry crops and low drinking water supplies. But one expert says there's no cause for concern, at least for now. David Boutt is a hydro-geologist and professor of...
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...
The Keystone Center will design and facilitate a number of stakeholder engagement workshops dubbed “Climate Conversations.” The conversational format will encourage personal exchange of experiences and ideas among 50 or more participants at each event. The workshops will be designed to enhance...
"With support from NASA's Innovations in Climate Education (NICE) program, we are developing approaches to bring student media production into climate change education in ways that are engaging, empowering, and can be readily adopted in a wide range of instructional environments. We have found...
Extraordinarily dry conditions from the lack of snowfall - combined with all the fallen tree limbs from last year’s triple whammy of tornadoes, Tropical Storm Irene, and the Halloween-eve snowstorm - will make the next few months the most dangerous forest fire season in memory in Massachusetts,...
The attached is guidance for the development of pre-proposals and preliminary guidance for full proposals for the first round of science projects to be sponsored by the NE CSC. This process is...
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AMHERST, Mass. - The meteorological winter that just ended was one of the warmest ever recorded for Massachusetts and the Northeast, depending on location, and was coupled with very low snowfall amounts, according to climatologist Michael Rawlins, manager of the Climate System Research Center at...
Congressional Democrats found vocal allies today in their quest to cap carbon dioxide emissions -- the insurance and reinsurance industries. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told reporters that record temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events are causing...
VIDEO: Environmental and political leaders gathered at the UMass Club in Boston to participate in the unveiling Feb. 28 of the Northeast Climate Science Center led by UMass Amherst researchers. The prestigious federal center will provide expertise to address the effects of climate change on...
The cap on carbon emissions established under the three-year-old regional cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gases is under review by participating states to address the oversupply of allowances that has driven down the cost and demand for those credits...
This year tied 1997 as the 11th warmest year since records began in 1880. The annual global combined land and ocean surface temperature was 0.51°C (0.92°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F). This marks the 35th consecutive year, since 1976, that the yearly global temperature was...
During January, warmer-than-average conditions enveloped most of the contiguous United States, with widespread below-average precipitation. The overall weather pattern for the month was reflected in the lack of snow for much of the Northern Plains, Midwest, and Northeast. This scenario was in...
The driest first week of January in U.S. history is troubling news for the Northeast. Soaring winter temperatures forced flowers to bloom in New Hampshire this month, while parts of northern New England normally under at least a foot of snow by now have no snow, or just a dusting...
With an annual average of 55.14 inches, the Northeast had its wettest year in 117 years. Among the states, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania saw their wettest year since 1895 while Vermont and Pennsylvania tallied their 2nd wettest year on record. At the local level, fourteen of...
HARTFORD, Conn. — Numerous species already have enough to contend with as climate changes drive them out of their natural habitats; a new study shows that they also have to compete with each other in outrunning those changes.
WASHINGTON D.C. — It's not in your imagination. The unusually mild temperatures across several regions of the country in the past few months are disrupting the natural cycles that define the winter landscape. What began as elevated temperatures at the start of fall in parts of the United States...
SPRINGFIELD, MA (WSHM) - Even on the cloudiest of winter days, Western Massachusetts Electric Company's new solar facility on Goodwin Street in Springfield is still bringing in the power. "We did final testing in November and it's been in commercial operation since Dec. 1. We actually had a...
GRAND RAPIDS — Remember “Snowpocalypse 2011,” that Feb. 2 storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in a matter of hours? You’re not alone, West Michigan. Half the nation recalls — and experienced — the storm that broke snowfall records in cities, counties and states from the Rocky Mountains to...
Carbon-dioxide emissions allowances in the U.S. Northeast were auctioned for $1.89, the minimum allowable bid, as New Jersey prepared to exit the 10-state regional program. The quarterly auction sold 27.3 million, or 63 percent, of the available 43 million allowances, the fifth-lowest since the...
DURHAM, N.H. – Scientists at the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) have been funded by NASA to improve estimates of how melting mountain glaciers around the globe will contribute to sea level rise in the future. The data, which are currently...
Kampala, 18 November 2011—The Summary for Policymakers of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) was approved today by member governments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Summary for...
Using observations from papers published in peer-reviewed journals, data from long-term monitoring projects and climate models dating back to 1950, IPCC scientists concluded there has been an overall global increase in the number of warm days and nights, as well as in the length and frequency of...
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