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Total precipitation departure from the mean over the past 7 days

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Yao Tandong, left, and Lonnie Thompson, right, process an ice core drilled from the Guliya Ice Cap in the Tibetan Plateau in 2015
July 29, 2021

15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice

Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those…

Lodged Corn
June 24, 2021

Ohio Dealing with Cleanup from Several Storms Last Weekend

Though not in the heart of Tornado Alley, Ohio certainly deals with its fair share of severe weather. The season typically ramps up during May and June, but severe weather so far in 2021 has been…

Brood X Cicada
June 8, 2021

Brood X cicadas singing, buzzing and circling trees in older wooded areas

The warm sunshine coaxed Brood X cicadas into fully emerging in the past week in parts of Ohio. The 17-year periodical cicadas, with orange wing veins and reddish-brown eyes, are chorusing, which…

Head Scab in Ohio Wheat
June 1, 2021

Head Scab Risk Low for Wheat

According to the FHB forecasting system (http://www.wheatscab.psu.edu/), the risk for head scab is low across the state of Ohio for wheat flowering (anthesis) today, May 24, and over the next…

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Jason Cervenec
Jason Cervenec
Education and Outreach Director, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
Steven Quiring
Steven Quiring
Faculty Member, Geography Department
Aaron Wilson
Aaron Wilson
Research Scientist, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and OSU Extension
Jim Degrand
Jim Degrand
Assistant State Climatologist

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