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USA Today highlights UMaine Climate Change Reanalyzer data visualizations

In an article about visualizations of climate change data, USA Today highlighted the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer, which gathers data from the National Weather Service and elsewhere to generate visualizations to show changes in the planet’s climate.

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