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• Battle of the Cold Front and Spring ET

  Word is on Friday we could see a front.
  
  The result could be some coveted spring rain.
  
  Foreground: In the foreground is actual weekly rainfall (blue bars), average weekly rainfall (dotted black line) and median weekly rainfall (solid black line).  The dotted line nicely shows that on [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 05, 2012, 7:51pm in Environment

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• Dry season refugia pools ...

  are the last to go dry
  and the first to fill up when it rains
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 05, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Thunder Pumpers - The American Bittern

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  Stick your head in an aquarium and say “glunk-ga-glunk” repeatedly. This was the best description I could offer to a friend who was trying to help me identify the other worldly noise I was hearing coming from just outside my home in Londonderry, VT back in 2002. I had never heard such a sound [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at April 05, 2012, 2:00am in Environment

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• Happy to stand in fear at water's edge?

  I don't know what changed ...
  
  But this time last year I walked fearlessly straight into the pool below.
  
  April 2012
  Maybe I'm just getting softer in my old age, as in the saying:
  
  "Another year older, another year slower."
  
  Same view the year [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 04, 2012, 7:52pm in Environment

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• Deep water haunts

  Water's still out there ...
  But it's getting harder to find
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 04, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• March of the alien invaders!

  How unusually warm was March?
  
  "It's almost like science fiction" was quoted in the national news. (read article)
  
  March 2012 Temperature Comparison
  Not that I or anyone saw any extraterrestrials.
  
  But it did inspire me to dig manically into the March temperature data to see [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 03, 2012, 7:54pm in Environment

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• Source of the Suwannee

  Even if most of the water exits
  the swamp via evapotranspiration
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 03, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Whale Sharks and Fishermen

  Nice find on the Fiji Shark Diving blog...fishermen and whale sharks learn to coexist in a region that usually is not safe for these large and gentle animals.  
  Shawn Heinrich captured the story in the video below - it speaks to the pros and cons of tourist shark [...]
  From OceanicDreams at April 03, 2012, 10:02am in Environment, Photography and Video

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• Obituary for “The Senator”

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  3500 years before present to January 16th, 2012 The beloved Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens), affectionately nicknamed “the Senator”, was born 3500 years ago in what is present day Longwood, Florida. The 125 foot tall, seventeen and a half foot diameter trunked, deciduous hardwood was considered the 5th oldest tree in the world, the oldest Pond Cypress [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at April 03, 2012, 2:00am in Environment

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• Okefenokee is back (but for how long?)

  Okefenokee swamp had been mired in a multi-year drought ...
  
  And then like that it's done.
  
  How low was 2011?
  So low that its full annual flow volume
  doesn't even show up on the bar chart (11,600 acre feet),
  however, the recent spring rise jumps out on' [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at April 02, 2012, 7:56pm in Environment

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