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  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    It’s the eve of another Thanksgiving Day, and I am thankful for all of you readers of my daily blog! I will be eating turkey and watching football this weekend and will take a few days off to enjoy time with family and friends. I hope you do too! I will be back on Sunday…

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  • The University of Georgia released a story this week on my new position as head of the Georgia Weather Network. You can read it at the Albany Herald here.

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  • I am pleased to announce that I am the new interim director of the Georgia Weather Network, replacing Dr. Ian Flitcroft who is retiring this week. Dr. Flitcroft and Dr. Donn Shilling of the UGA Crop and Soil Sciences Department have worked together to leave the weather network in excellent shape, with 86 high quality…

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  • As we enter the Christmas weekend, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my readers for their attention and their comments and to wish you all a blessed holiday week! I will be taking a few days off to spend time with family and friends and I hope you are able to…

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  • I am thankful to each one of you for reading this blog and sharing your stories with me. I am taking a couple of days off to spend time with family and friends, to eat and watch football. I bet you are too. Wherever you are, I hope you have a wonderful holiday! And special…

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  • If you’ve never heard the term ‘medicane’ then you are not alone. A rare tropical storm is forming in the Mediterranean Sea and is already causing big impacts on Greece, including torrential flooding. Very few of these storms, dubbed ‘medicanes” has ever been seen because the ocean temperatures and atmospheric dynamics there are not usually…

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  • As part of my new funding from the Southeast Regional Climate Hub, I am looking for projects that relate weather and climate variability to the production and management of crops grown in the Southeast.  That could range from grains to fruit to forage and could include both larger commodity crops like corn and specialty crops…

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