Barbara Lorene (Berend) Davis, 79, of Lakeland, Florida, passed peacefully on February 22, 2025. She was born on September 4, 1945, in LaGrange Park, Illinois, to Bob and Lorene Berend.

An index is a measure (often a numerical value) that can be representative of a particular pattern or state of a system. Climatologists monitor several indices, some ocean-based and some atmospheric, ...