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February thaw points to wet spring: Climatologist
Mar 1, 2017, 17:00 PM
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The February thaw could mean a wet spring. Iowa State University Climatologist Elwynn Taylor says many assume the late winter warmth is the result of climate change, but he says that’s not the case.
“It has to do with the strength of the chinooks and the weather pattern,” Taylor told Brownfield Ag News, “also California’s flooding where they were in a drought, the correction of their drought to a flood, and of our cold winter to an amazingly warm one, they’re connected.”
He says the warm-up isn’t long term, but instead it is only what’s happening this year.
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