Reuters Science News: Temperatures dropped across Brazil with rare snowfall overnight in some places

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. is this the day after tomrrow?

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2. Not good signs, are they?

Louisiana’s population is already moving to escape climate catastrophe


By Tim McDonnell
Climate reporter

Published September 1, 2020Last updated on September 2, 2020

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, St. Tammany parish was a rural, sparsely populated corner of southeastern Louisiana best known for sawmills and a smattering of fancy resorts. It hugs the north shore of the vast estuary known as Lake Pontchartrain, whose opposite shore abuts New Orleans. In 1969, a 24-mile bridge was completed to connect the parish (Louisiana’s term for county) directly to the city, turning St. Tammany into a wealthy, predominantly white suburb.

Then, after Hurricane Katrina slammed into Louisiana in 2005, the parish began to adopt a new identity. St. Tammany became a place of refuge from the environmental hazards—storms, sea level rise, land loss—that plague New Orleans and other parishes on the outer fringes of the Louisiana coast.

https://qz.com/1895269/louisianas-population-is-moving-to-escape-climate-catastrophe/

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3. I read about frost destroying the coffee crop. This is not good news.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. 8 or 10 Years Ago...

...I was visiting a customer site in Passo Fundo (southwest of Sao Paulo) and it snowed in July.
Of course, July is winter. Down they're only a few degrees closer to the equator than we are in the Chicago area. And, it's quite a bit inland.
So, I wasn't surprised to see snow. Maybe I should have been.