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Brian Magi
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Geography and Earth Sciences
UNC Charlotte
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Tag Archives: USA
North Carolina climate compared to the USA and globe
The first months of 2013 here in Charlotte have seemed unusually cool, but rather than relying on our gut feeling, let’s look at the numbers. Start by going to the NCDC website and mine out the data to find that … Continue reading
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USA in December remains much warmer than average
A blowout in sports – whether it’s baseball, football, basketball, or soccer – is usually boring to watch. By blowout, I mean a game when one team obliterates the other. You know, 14-2 in baseball, 40-7 in football, etc. But … Continue reading
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Shattering the temperature record?
Glancing through the temperature anomalies of the last year, it’s clear we’re heading – barrelling really – towards a record hot year. Temperature data is collected and archived very quickly through various climate centers. The High Plains Regional Climate Center … Continue reading
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2012 Temperatures in North Carolina and USA
The big news, if you’re paying attention the inexorable increase in temperatures, is that the biggest contributor to fossil fuel carbon (the USA) is experiencing the hottest year in 118 years. We have one month remaining this year, but the … Continue reading
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Remembering the warmth with temporal averaging
It’s been cool in North Carolina and in Charlotte in August and September 2012, as I talked about on one of my posts. In that post, I said that if you really want to know whether the temperatures you are … Continue reading
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Cool in North Carolina, but not the USA
Between all the various climate excitement in the news – like record-low Arctic sea ice – temperature measurements continue to be collected. A really great webpage to actually examine the temperature data is at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center. … Continue reading
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