Pam Knox
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I’ve been getting upwards of 50 or more spam messages a day on this blog in spite of using Captcha and other devices so I am going to turn off comments for the time being. Please feel free to email blog-related comments directly to me at pknox @ uga.edu. Sorry for this inconvenience but it…
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A Time magazine article describes some of the changes that have been seen in recent years with snowshoe hares, wolverines, flying foxes, bats, and other wild mammals as climate has warmed and changed patterns of snow and humidity as well as temperature. In the future this may affect the range of some of these wild…
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December 1 marks the beginning of meteorological winter. After one of the coldest Novembers in recent memory, the beginning of December should bring quite a change to the Southeast. The weather patterns are starting to show signs of the expected El Nino signal, and most of the US should see temperatures above normal for the…
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Climate summaries for Florida and North Carolina are now available online. Florida North Carolina
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November 30 marks the end of the hurricane season in the North Atlantic Ocean. The map below summarizes all of the storm paths this year. Only one storm hit the US: Hurricane Arthur over the 4th of July weekend. The lack of tropical systems this year was one of the main reasons for the development…
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The wind map for tonight shows a strong frontal boundary just about to hit Dallas this evening and stretching up to Columbus OH. You can see it as a sharp transition of wind direction from winds from the south ahead of the front (which gave us our nice warm weather today) and the strong flow…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center noted that for November 1-28, many stations are set to record their monthly average temperatures in the top ten coldest years on record. A few stations, including Macon and Valdosta GA, may set their coldest on record. In the map below, stations in pink are in the top 5 coldest…
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