Pam Knox

  • Video: Our Living Earth from Space

    Here’s a very interesting video from NASA Goddard on how satellites have changed our views of the earth and some of the things we have learned about our planet from viewing it from space. You can view it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIcJBiynvw&feature=share.

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  • Where do you find weather and climate data?

    If you’ve ever looked for weather or climate data, you may feel a bit lost.  There are a lot of places to get it if you know the secrets, but not all of them are equally easy to use.  I have previously posted a list of sites at https://site.extension.uga.edu/climate/2014/09/list-of-web-sites-with-weather-and-climate-data-for-georgia-and-beyond/. But NOAA has a nice new site…

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  • What to do when your citrus grove is devastated by citrus greening?  One citrus grove owner in Palm City, FL, found an alternate use for his land. The owner was originally going to turn the land into “ranchettes” but an offer from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection encouraged them to instead turn it into…

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  • The federal government is in the process of updating their estimates of the 100-year storm across most of the United States. This is a good thing, because the last time a complete estimate of the 100-year storm (or more accurately, the amount of rainfall that has a 1 in 100 chance of occurring in any…

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  • In all of the holiday hubbub, you may have missed these stories about the awful air pollution plaguing Indian cities like New Delhi. While a lot of the recent record-setting high particulate levels have been coming from a dust storm, normal traffic, cooking and other fuel use dumps massive number of unhealthy particles into the…

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  • Another week of little precipitation

    The latest 7 day QPF shows less than half an inch of rain for most of the region in the next week. Most of what falls will be on Tuesday evening or later. This should keep the drought level steady or possibly expanding the moderate drought that has hit some parts of the Southeast in…

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  • Happy Thanksgiving! Thank a farmer!

    I am thankful to each one of you for reading this blog and sharing your stories with me. I am taking a couple of days off to spend time with family and friends, to eat and watch football. I bet you are too. Wherever you are, I hope you have a wonderful holiday! And special…

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