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  1. Apr 2024
  2. Jan 2024
    1. These data also serve as input for computer models to help generate climate outlooks and weather forecasts.

      Climate is based on data, sometimes for 30 or more years.

    2. It’s about using the weather data we collected in the past to look for long-term trends of 30 years or more.

      Does this mean that areas with argeed-upon climates have different climate assignments every 30 years?

    3. forecasters rely on a network of radars, satellites, ocean buoys, weather balloons, other observations, and supercomputers to provide timely, accurate, and reliable forecasts.

      These instruments help monitor and forcast the weather.

  3. Aug 2023
    1. are responding to the crisis with a variety of measures that they hope will safeguard the Reef’s remaining live corals, protect corals being grown in underwater nurseries, and preserve live fragments of all genetically unique staghorn and elkhorn coral that remain on Florida’s Coral Reef.

      This reminds me of this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvbV9llG5L8

    2. n mid-July 2023, heat-stressed corals in the southern Florida Keys began bleaching—expelling their food-producing algal partners—amid the hottest water temperatures ever documented in the region during the satellite record (dating back to 1985). As weeks of heat stress have continued to accumulate, bleaching and death have become more widespread, raising fears of a mass mortality event on the region’s already fragile reefs.

      Was this record of the Florida Keys?