Researchers at the University of Georgia are working to develop an early warning system for bright green toxic algal blooms in Georgia lakes using social media platforms and cloud computing to crowdsource instances where further monitoring may be necessary. The project—known as CyanoTRACKER—will use Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to help…
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As a former State Climatologist of Wisconsin and assistant SC of Georgia, I am very proud of all our state climatologists around the country and the work that they do to monitor historical climate and educate their citizens about weather and climate variability at all time scales. NOAA has just…
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Vox.com had an interesting article this week which discussed the history of the Fahrenheit and Centigrade temperature scales and why the US is the only major country that still uses the Fahrenheit scale. You might enjoy reading about the controversy here. Marshall Shepherd, UGA Geography professor, posted a blog article this…
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The Georgia State Climatologist, Bill Murphey, has let me know that their office has a new website address. You can find them at https://epd.georgia.gov/office-state-climatologist.
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There is a new “experimental” product available from the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) of NOAA which provides analog values of precipitation amounts for time periods from the present to ten days out. The product is available at https://esrl.noaa.gov/psd/forecasts/reforecast2/analogs/index.html. These maps use a new set of analog comparisons to predict rainfall…
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Meteorologists are anxiously watching the latest blast from the Arctic, which is expected to move into the Southeast after a cold frontal passage on Wednesday. Predicted temperatures on Thursday show that it is likely that many areas of the Southeast will experience record low high temperatures and some record lows…
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With all the news stories about Boston’s incredible snowfall and the frigid conditions in the Northeast, you’d think that the US is having a much colder than normal winter. But USA Today points out that while the Northeast is having one of its snowiest and chilliest winters on record, out…
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