Pam Knox
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According to NOAA as reported in The Weather Whisperer at AgWeb here, 2016 had the lowest number of tornadoes on record at 830 as of November 17. The entire month of November had only one tornado as of November 23, according to the Capital Weather Gang here. A vigorous storm system that is moving through…
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The Cloud Appreciation Society’s monthly cloud picture for November showed a mysterious ring in the cloud layer over Warwickshire, England. Where did it come from? You can read the detective story at EarthSky at https://earthsky.org/earth/mystery-cloud-appreciation-society-pretor-pinney-nov-2016. The Cloud Appreciation Society is a great place to look at other pictures of clouds too. You can visit them at https://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org.
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that rain will be reentering the Southeast after a long hiatus sometime around mid-week. While the QPF map shows as much as 7 inches in the mountainous regions, I think that is likely an overestimate of actual rainfall amounts. Still, many places in the drought-stricken areas could see…
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Dr. Bob Kemerait of UGA has an insightful column in the Southeast Farm Press on how weather and climate make predicting crop performance difficult. This year has been particularly bad with flooding rain in some areas and severe drought in others. As Bob points out, “the most important factor that the grower can do little…
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You may not remember Hurricane Alex, but it formed in mid-January this year, long before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. And now we have Hurricane Otto, which passed from the Atlantic to the Eastern Pacific Ocean yesterday, setting a record for the latest landfall in any calendar year in…
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One of the more unusual stories this week was the report that respiratory distress linked to thunderstorms in Melbourne, Australia, caused thousands of asthma attacks and four deaths earlier this week. You can read more about it in the Capital Weather Gang here. The culprit was grass pollen which was concentrated ahead of the storm…
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In place of Black Friday I am offering a White Friday instead. Here is a fantastic picture of a rare fogbow from Scotland which is making the rounds of my Facebook feed today. You can read about what makes a fogbow or white rainbow at Yahoo here. If that’s not enough of the white stuff,…