Pam Knox
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In honor of the Super Bowl festivities today, here are some statistics on the weather extremes of past Super Bowl events, compiled by William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center. SUPER BOWL EXTREMES 17 of the past 50 Bowls have been played outdoors, leaving it up to Mother Nature to add the element of…
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Science magazine posted an interesting story online about wind damage to trees, In the article they claim that research has shown that trees generally all break at wind speeds of 94 mph or higher, although trees can lose branches or tip over at lower speeds, especially if the ground is wet and their root systems…
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The latest QPF map shows very limited precipitation in the Southeast for the next week. The areas most like to see wet conditions are the mountains and along the East Coast. There is even a limited potential for some light snow as the latest storm develops along the coast, although I don’t expect that we…
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Snowfall is beautiful but can cause a lot of problems for those who need to go places. It can also cause damage to trees and even buildings if there is enough of it. Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information has a great blog post this week in “Beyond the Data” on the…
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The latest CoCoRaHS blog post issued earlier this week features the rain that Florida has experienced in recent weeks. You can read it at https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-wet-winter-in-sunshine-state.html?spref=fb.
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In the larger scheme of things, celebrating your local meteorologist is probably not high on the list. However, in honor of today’s designation of National Weatherperson’s Day, I offer a rerun of this Forbes.com blog post by Marshall Shepherd of UGA, “Debunking 5 Myths about Meteorologists”. Meteorologists are at work 24-7-366 (it’s leap year) providing…
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Southernloggintimes.com posted an article today from the Georgia Forestry Commission that Georgia Tech has put out a new report about logging in Georgia which shows how valuable forestry is to the state. According to the report, “Employees working in forestry earned more in wages and salaries in 2014 than people in any other Georgia manufacturing industry….Georgia’s forest…