Image of the Day: Monkeying Around in a Cool Bath
Monkeys enjoy a cool bath near Bangkok, Thailand where temperatures, according the The Guardian, are warmer than the hottest average temperatures seen in the past 30 years. … Read More
Image of the Day: It’s Not Easy Being Green in the U.K.
The asparagus season is short-lived; starting around May 1 and ending at the end of June. Since asparagus is very climate sensitive, with a warm spring, the greens could hit the shelves even earlier. But that wasn’t the case. While temps were high in March, April was much cooler and the recent rains have also worked on cooling the soil temperatures… Read More
Spring Backward? For Many, April Was Cooler than March
These records are particularly remarkable because April was also a warmer-than-average month in the Northeast and Midwest. In Chicago, April was cooler than March for just the second time on record, despite the fact that April was the seventh-straight month of above normal temperatures there.… Read More
Heat Wave Bakes West, Sets Marks & Hits High Note of 113
During the past seven days, 746 daily recordhigh temperatures were set or tied, along with 400 daily record=high minimum temperatures, according to the National Climatic Data Center. More impressive is the fact that 99 monthly record-high temperatures were set or tied during this same period, along with 22 monthly record-high minimum temperatures.… Read More
Image of the Day: Warming Keeps Them Busy as a Bee
The biggest change in the onset time for bees and flowers took place after 1970, which is the period that has had the greatest increase in mean annual temperature. While researchers don’t know the exact trigger for the bees emergence, Bryan Danforth, Cornell professor of entomology fears, “if climate change accelerates the way it is expected to, we… Read More
NOAA: It Was Hot and Wet with Pockets of Drought
Twenty-five states had a record warm month, with another 15 in the top 10 historically. Alaska, by contrast, had its 10th coolest March on record.… Read More
Image of the Day: The Hottest Place on Earth?
The highest temperature ever measured on Earth came on Sept. 13, 1922, when the thermometer at a weather station in El Azizia, Libya, reached 136.4°F, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). That reading took the title, "Hottest Place on Earth", away from Death Valley, California, which set the previous record at 134°F in July… Read More
Image of the Day: Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home
Climate change could be a leading cause in the decline of native ladybugs, according to John Losey, one of the world’s leading experts on the beetles. Warmer weather is disastrous to ladybugs, as snow covers their hibernation sites, it keeps the ground temperatures at 0 degrees, allowing them to remain dormant in the winter. If the temperatures … Read More
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