October 2020
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The US Geological Survey has posted a link to their new but still experimental interactive data portal. It includes access to water data like streamflow, lake levels, and well levels, and also includes access to their weather data such as precipitation from their gauges and from radar as well as temperature. Check it out at…
Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data -
The latest 7-day QPF shows that most of the country will see no rain at all this week, including Election Day on Tuesday. The exceptions are rain in the Pacific Northwest later in the week as well as some light rain along the East Coast. So the weather this year will not be an excuse…
Posted in: Climate outlooks -
October 2020 is almost over. The maps from the High Plain Regional Climate Center are showing that precipitation across the region is pretty close to normal, with above normal values in the northern half where tropical rain has fallen, and below normal amounts in the southern half. Temperatures across the region have been quite a…
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Munich Re, the international insurance company, has an interesting story on the combination of warmer winters and later frosts that are affecting crops in Europe. It begins, ” In the second and third ten-day periods of April, and in some cases even over the first ten days of May 2017, western, central, southern and eastern…
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Update: Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz4y4Dgrtyc. This week, the Georgia Climate Project hosted a webinar on the relationship between changing climate and health impacts. They should be posting a link to a recording in a couple of weeks, and when they do, I will post it on the blog. In the meanwhile, you can visit their…
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There are a couple of web sites I like to go to when the wind fields are interesting, and tonight is certainly one of those nights. Here is the streamline map of winds for the US from https://hint.fm/wind/. You can also find a color global map at https://earth.nullschool.net/. I will be watching these in the…
Posted in: Interesting weather images -
Canadian farmers deal with a lot of variable and sometimes harsh weather conditions. Over time, they are being challenged in new ways as the climate gets warmer but also more variable in rainfall. At the same time, they have to deal with big cold outbreaks like the ones they have seen this week. The farmers…