Pam Knox
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NOAA has released their latest climate report for the global climate. In the report, available at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201505, they note that May 2015, March-May 2015, and the year to date January through May 2015 were all the warmest on record since records began in 1880. Precipitation amounts varied tremendously from on location to another this month.
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NOAA has announced their weather photography contest winners for this year. You can view them at https://www.weather.gov/photocontest/.
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In yesterday’s post I pointed to a composite map from Florida State Climatologist David Zierden showing that on the average, May and June in strong El Nino years are wet and July and August are dry. This year, the wet conditions have certainly occurred in Texas and Oklahoma, but not in the Southeast, as…
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The Weather Channel has an interesting series of photos which show some of the strange things that have shown up on NWS radar since the Doppler radar went live in the mid-1990s. You can see them by clicking here. When I lived in Wisconsin, the NWS folk at NWS Sullivan told me they could see…
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Recent weather events have caused a number of impacts on livestock in the Southeast. Here are a couple of recent news stories about some of the impacts. Earlier this week National Public Radio ran a story about the effects of both drought and flood on Texas cattle ranchers. The whipsaw from drought to the recently…
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The Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, called CoCoRaHS for short, is a network of volunteer precipitation observers across the US and now into Canada as well. They collect daily rainfall observations in a set of uniform rain gauges and enter the data into their website at https://www.cocorahs.org. Today is CoCoRaHS’s 17th birthday. Here…
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In his briefing for the Appalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River stakeholder group today, Florida State Climatologist David Zierden noted that the eastern Pacific Ocean is nearly at the threshold for a strong El Nino now and should pass that threshold in the next month. He presented some information about what to expect from a strong El Nino based…