Pam Knox
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A number of people have remarked to me here in Athens that this summer has been very nice. Temperatures have not been too hot and we have had some rain, although there have also been dry spells. The thermograph for Athens shows the daily variation in temperature below. Note that yesterday, August 12, was almost…
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The Southeast Climate Consortium is one of the supporting groups for this blog. Their latest newsletter and annual report are now available at https://myemail.constantcontact.com/SECC-August-Newsletter.html?soid=1117952244155&aid=R-LMWpATt88 and https://www.seclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SECC-RISA-Annual-Report-2015.pdf. You can read about recent resources on climate and agriculture such as educational videos as well as research findings in the report.
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Do you know who to call in your state in case of extreme weather emergency? NOAA has compiled handy lists of phone numbers and contact information for each state (and some smaller regions). You can find links to all of them at https://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/activities/weather-ready-nation/newis/. Thank you, NOAA!
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has a blog on a variety of topics related to climate in the Southeast. Today’s entry describes some research that their students are doing on the measurement of drought. One of the new products under development is a Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) which will include the impacts…
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The National Weather Service provided a one-page summary of PoP (“probability of precipitation”) forecasting today that is a good summary of this statistic. It is important to keep in mind that forecasts are always made for a specific time period and a specific area over which the PoP forecast is valid. “Probability of precipitation” is what…
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Yesterday parts of Georgia experienced flooding rains. They were very localized and many areas received no rain at all. The NWS daily rainfall estimate from https://water.weather.gov/precip shows the spatial variability of rain across the area. You will note two areas of heavy rainfall in red in north-central Georgia centered on Athens-Clarke County and Morgan County…
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Many news sources have been providing stories on the current strong El Nino and its likely impacts on various parts of the world. For example, Discover magazine and many others have compared this El Nino to the record El Nino of 1997-1998, and many scientists feel the current one may end up even stronger than that…