Pam Knox

  • Happy Water Year!

    October 1st marks the beginning of the water year.  What is the water year?  Here’s an answer from the CoCoRaHS web site at https://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=mod&mod=1: “The water year is the best consecutive twelve months that span the “water storage/water usage” hydrologic cycle. The water year cycle is particularly obvious in the Rocky Mountains and western U.S.…

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  • PAY ATTENTION to Hurricane Joaquin

    My meteorologist friends have been filling up social media today with the latest information on Hurricane Joaquin, currently a strong category 2 storm in the Atlantic Ocean.  (Note: at 11 pm it was increased to a major Category 3 hurricane.)  It is moving slowly southwest now but is expected to make a sharp right turn and…

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  • Preliminary September 2015 climate statistics

    September 2015 was cooler than normal for most of the Southeast, based on preliminary data through this morning. This was in stark contrast to most of the rest of the country, which was much warmer than normal.  Precipitation across the Southeast varied quite a bit, with the Florida peninsula and areas of Georgia, Alabama and…

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  • Light pollution and its influence on health

    Another great map I found this week describes the spatial pattern of light pollution across the US (there are also maps for other countries available online).  This map was described in an article in The Week magazine.  The US map below shows the amount of light pollution across the US.  The areas in green are…

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  • Deer climatology map

    As a climatologist and geographer I am always fascinated by the variety of maps that are available.  You can measure the “climate” of many things, not just the weather. This week Matt Daniel, meteorologist at WMAZ in Macon, posted this map of the most active time for deer movement across Georgia from the Georgia Wildlife…

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  • Pecan harvest begins

    Rome Ethredge posted an article from Dr. Lenny Wells, UGA Extension Horticulturist, on the start of the pecan harvest this year in Georgia.  This year’s crop looks to be one of the best we have had in the past several years and was aided by dry conditions in June which helped prevent scab in the…

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  • Even though we are on the downside of the tropical season, it is not too late to get an impactful storm.  Today Tropical Storm Joaquin is out in the Atlantic and may be headed for the North Carolina coast and the Northeast, where it could cause a lot of problems with flooding in the area.…

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