Some good news.  The latest update from NOAA shows that the drought, that had peaked for us roughly two months ago, is now over.  Below you can see the change from early December to today.

Below is twitter post from climate scientist Dr. Neil Kaye.  @neilrkaye "We have just comfortably had the warmest year on record for the globe at 1.46°C (2.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial value. This #dataviz shows the warming since 1850."…

A line of strong thunderstorms will blow through the Midlands on Tuesday with gusty winds, heavy rain, and the potential for a few tornadoes.  The timing will be from roughly 10am to 4pm.  Keep it tuned to ABC Columbia for…

About 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, a wind farm is being built, with the first electricity just now being delivered.  From NBC Boston, "Once it is fully operational, Vineyard Wind 1 is projected to generate cleaner electricity for more…

The earth is warming up quickly.  By far the biggest reason is that human activities are adding more heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere than are there normally.  One significant heat-trapping gas is carbon dioxide.  Over the last 150 years the…

The distance that the Earth is from the sun varies some because the orbit is slightly oval-shaped.  Today is the Earth's closest distance from the sun.  We are farthest from the sun in early July.  The Earth's tilt is a…

We've gotten beneficial rain in the past month, and that's made a significant dent in our drought.  Check out the images below from one month ago and today.  Notice there is almost no red (extreme drought) left on the map. …

A potent storm will plow through the Midlands today (Sunday).  It'll be rainy, at times heavy, all day long - expect up to 3 inches of rain.  This will cause some street flooding.  It'll also be windy with gust to…

Geothermal power plants use heat that is naturally occurring in the earth.  What new with this next-generation power plant is explained in an excerpt from this article on Canary Media. "Unlike conventional geothermal plants, which tap into heat found close…

Yes, the "official" end of hurricane season in the Atlantic happens on November 1st.  But sometimes Mother Nature doesn't know that...  Check out the map below.  Two areas could produce tropical storms over the next 7 days.  Stay tuned.

Hurricane Otis is now a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph, about to slam into Acapulco Mexico.  Just 18 hours ago it was a tropical storm, but has intensified unfathomably fast into a monster of a storm.  Below…

Hurricane Tammy is currently about 1200 miles off the coast of South Carolina - a long way from impacting us at all.  That said, the storm is expected to push to the north and then do something unusual: make a…

"From 2018 to 2021, an estimated 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, with the population plummeting to record lows in 2021. Researchers had only speculated as to what happened to the…

The oceans are absorbing about 90% of the heat from Global Warming.  The hotter oceans are causing hurricanes to intensify a lot faster than they used to.   You can read all of the details here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/climate-change-making-atlantic-hurricanes-strengthen-weak-major/story?id=104039515

There are two tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean - Philippe and Rina.  Both of them are more than 1500 miles from the southeastern US coastline.  And it appears that both of them will stay harmlessly far away from any…

This August, Columbia was hotter than normal and wetter than normal. The average temperature of 82.6°F was 1.6° above normal, and the 5.71 inches of precipitation was 123% of the normal amount (data are from SC-ACIS and normal is defined…