Pam Knox
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After a month of below normal temperatures, the state has rebounded to mostly a little above normal conditions. Most of the state was also drier than normal with the exception of the southeastern counties, which were well above normal due to several rain events in the region. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 81.2…
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The National Environmental Education Foundation published a short report this week on how changes in climate could affect agriculture in the future. While carbon dioxide is necessary for plants to grow and increased carbon dioxide does increase the growth of plants (both beneficial crops and weeds), it also can affect the length of the growing…
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For those of you who like to look at weather that is more than just local, here is a story about some Spanish meteorologists who are providing information on current Mars weather conditions. While they don’t do it every day, they are allowing us on Earth to learn more about the Martian atmosphere from the…
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The latest outlook for August 2017 from the end of July shows equal changes for near, above or below normal temperatures for everywhere in the Southeast except for southern Florida, which leans towards warmer conditions. There is a moderate increase in the chances for above normal rainfall in most of the Southeast.
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Here’s an interesting story from the Capital Weather Gang on Ronald Reagan’s near-disastrous Air Force One landing at Andrews AFB on August 1, 1983. A microburst hit the airport with winds of up to 149 mph just six minutes after Reagan’s plane landed. Microbursts, which once were considered to be fictitious, have been known to…
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The Florida Climate Center has released their monthly climate summary for July 2017. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-July-2017.
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NASA is asking for the help of citizen scientists to monitor weather conditions during the August 21 eclipse as it passes across the US. According to Popular Science, they are looking for people to download the GLOBE app to their smartphones and report changes in cloud cover and/or temperature during the eclipse as they are…