Category: Environment
Curious about the natural world, climate change, and sustainability.
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Last Frost Date
Last week’s post on false spring had me thinking about when I should actually start planting things in the ground. I was always told “Mother’s Day” is the safest time to plant. Climate data is free, so let’s figure out the earliest planting date in Dayton, Ohio. Feel free to use the NOAA data to…
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False Spring
Spring has finally sprung, and while the veggies might not be in the ground (I’m eying you, Natorps), the weather has certainly turned. Yet every year, I feel like I’m faked-out by a series of days tricking me into thinking it’s spring, way earlier than it should. It’s a known phenomenon called “Fake Spring,” and…
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Is the Groundhog onto Something?
It’s February 2026, and the groundhog, unfortunately, predicted a longer winter. But does that really matter? Who told this groundhog he was going to predict weather? Did he grow up, as a pup, dreaming of being a weatherman? Does he know something we don’t know? I want to know if he’s onto something. I want…
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Sea Levels and Temperatures
I had some time during this weekend, because of the crazy amounts of snow dumped on Dayton, so I updated the Open Climate dashboard. The last experiment that we did on climate data, showed significant positive correlations between Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide emissions and the Earths Average temperature. We couldn’t reject the null…
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Climate Confirmation
My kiddo has been obsessed with the PBS Show “Weather Hunters”, and honestly – same. I’ve learned an embarrassing amount weather and climate, like what an anemometer does (seriously, who knew that?)The producers of the show, of course, dug into a little on the changing climate – which I’ve always taken at face-value. But challenging…
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