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App Update Includes Rainfall Alerts
2013-08-09 18:13:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
I love the weather. Particularly when it's nice, but I'll take any weather. I especially like knowing what's coming my way. My phone has a weather app, and I also downloaded the weather app from The Weather Channel (link for iPhone). I use both daily. That's why I'm excited about a new feature in the FarmLogs app that gives you weather alerts. Let's Get Digital read more
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How the Clean Air Act helped Atlanta's rainfall rebound
2013-07-02 18:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Live Science: Anti-pollution measures enacted in the United States in 1970 likely led to a rebound in rainfall over the city of Atlanta in the 1970s and 1980s, new research shows. Weather stations' measurements showed that average annual rainfall in the city's core increased 10 percent after the Clean Air Act, which focuses on airborne pollutants that pose a risk to human health, passed in 1970. "It suddenly just changed dramatically in the '70s. It wasn't a gradual change. It was pretty abrupt," said Jeremy...
Global warming may increase daily variability of India's monsoon rainfall: study
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: The findings have been revealed at a time when floods have killed more than 550 people and destroyed unaccounted properties in North India. Scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany used a comprehensive set of 20 state-of-the-art climate models to predict the extent of weather changes in the wake of global warming. The models consistently show that future global warming might increase the daily variability of Indian monsoon rainfall. According to Anders...
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Great Lakes Water Levels Rising Due to Rainfall
2013-06-12 10:14:04| Chemicals - Topix.net
"We've had some pretty good rainfall over all the Great Lakes over the last couple of weeks," said George Cotroneo, chief of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo division.
Climate change will increase extreme rainfall; drought, NASA says
2013-05-06 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GlobalPost: A new report by the US space agency NASA says that temperate regions will experience more drought while the tropics more extreme rains in the future. Enlarge Indian commuters make their way during a downpour in Amritsar on July 27, 2009. NASA scientists claim in a new study that temperate regions will experience more drought while the tropics more extreme rains in the future due to climate change. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images) What do you think? Climate change will increase extreme rainfall...
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