Archive: August 2016
101 archived posts
- “200 years ago this week, corn froze on the stalk. In August.”
- “Can Florida cracker cattle graze to conserve vital grassland, wetland?”
- “Eleven years since Hurricane Katrina’s dire forecast”
- “In Hoboken, a glimpse of cities’ future fights over rising seas”
- “Mapping global temperature change”
- “The U.S. coast is in an unprecedented hurricane drought — why this is terrifying”
- 2015 State of the Climate report released, confirms 2015 warmest year on record
- 24th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew
- 43 days in a row of 90+ temperatures in Athens
- 70 years viewing Earth from space
- A nice sunset picture
- A potential threat to the US East Coast next week?
- AgDay reports losses to Louisiana agriculture at over $110 million
- Anniversary of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption
- Annual Lightning Fatalities in the U.S. – Trend 1940 to 2015
- Athens had a 500-year rain event yesterday–how do we know?
- August 2016 so far near normal in rainfall, above normal in temperature
- August’s above-normal temperatures helped expand drought
- Awesome interactive maps
- Big rain event possible for parts of Southeast in next week
- Building Blocks for Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry
- Climate and weather impacts on agriculture around the world
- Climate fact sheets for the Southeast
- Congratulations to two Georgia gardening blogs!
- Could peanuts fuel Navy ships in the future?
- Crop and weather conditions across the Southeast
- Dry summer puts NY dairies at risk
- Education modules from WeatherSTEM
- El Niño bypasses Southern California groves
- Entire IPCC report in 19 haiku
- EPA: Factsheets on how climate change is affecting your state now available
- Extreme drought increases in Atlanta but stays constant elsewhere
- Extreme drought reduced due to scattered rain showers
- Florida climate summary for July 2016 now available
- Georgia’s salt marsh reduced by 35 percent due to drought, rising temperatures
- Grazing in the Great Plains
- Growing corn like it’s 2065
- Handling pasture in severe drought
- Harvesting meteors
- Hermine continues to strengthen; passage through GA highly likely
- Hit or miss rain
- Hot and dry conditions across the Southeast in July 2016
- Hot and dry weather expand drought in July 2016 in Georgia
- How could rising sea levels affect coastal properties?
- Hurricane path maps
- Interactive web site to follow rain event
- Invest 99L is still alive
- Is sea level rise accelerating?
- It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity
- Katrina stories from NOAA personnel; new satellites will help improve prediction
- Late evening update on TD 9
- Latest view of Southeast low
- Louisiana flooding
- Louisiana flooding damages crops–a first look
- Louisiana sweet potato growers wait out the rain
- Moderate rain for most of Southeast this week
- More expansion of drought
- Mosquitoes and weather
- Most of Southeast will receive below-normal rainfall this week
- Much more on the Louisiana flooding
- Much wetter week ahead–flooding possible
- NASA: July 2016 was the warmest month in recorded history
- Need USGS maps? Try this site
- New UGA weather network website now available
- New Zealand horse owners adapt to changing climate
- Next week should be drier across the Southeast
- NOAA: July 2016 hottest month on record since 1880
- NOAA: Atlantic hurricane season still expected to be the strongest since 2012
- NOAA: Defining Climate Normals in New Ways
- NOAA: Drought and La Niña updates
- NOAA: Warmest July on record for Florida, 3rd warmest for Southeast overall
- North Carolina climate summary for July 2016 now available
- Obscure regional phrases that describe excessive heat
- Oldest tree in Europe
- Oppressive heat hits many areas of globe
- Outlook for fall shows warmer and drier than normal likely to continue
- Over 6 million monarch butterflies died in Mexico’s winter storms
- Peak of hot weather is now coming earlier in the Southeast
- Rebuilding the prairie
- Scattered rain slightly reduced dry conditions in Georgia
- Scientists find evidence of flood that helped found China
- Subsurface irrigation can help protect against drought losses
- Summer of 2016: Unrelenting heat
- The ‘Great American Eclipse’ is a year from today
- Tips for hurricane preparedness
- Tropical Storm Earl forms in western Caribbean; not expected to affect Southeast
- Tropical Storm Hermine now predicted to cross southern Georgia
- Tropical storm path edges north into Georgia
- Tropics heat up with two tropical depressions aimed at the coast
- Upcoming Climate Learning Network webinars
- Upcoming forestry events
- Upcoming online and in-person courses
- Update on Investigation 99L
- Updated EPA report on Climate Change Indicators available
- Warmer temperatures may be shifting Tornado Alley
- West Antarctic ice sheet losses could mean trouble for coastal areas
- What is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation?
- What La Niña can do to weather in the Southeast
- What’s up with 99L?
- Where’s the rain?
- Why sunflowers move with the sun