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Something Odd Is Happening With Namibia’s Weather

*Southwestern African country is no arid desert–this year*

Something’s up with the weather in Namibia, say geoscientists Kyle Nichols of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Paul Bierman of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt.

Nichols and Bierman should know. They’re just back from the western mountains and coastal plain of this sparsely populated African country.

Usually, western Namibia is a dusty place where the stream beds are sand and the “lakes” are nothing more than flats of dried mud.

Not now. (more…)

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