According to a new study of 33 El Niños dating back to 1901 and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, climate change appears to be making the events stronger by shifting their hottest conditions west of the International Dateline over time. This can cause more extreme…
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With freezing weather about to hit most of Georgia, the Farm Bureau has posted this series of helpful general guidelines for things you can do to prepare for the freezing conditions. With freezing weather bearing down on most of the country this week, it’s a great time to make sure…
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A blast of Arctic air is expected to move into Georgia on Tuesday, November 11, bringing rain and gusty winds through the state over the day. Once the cold front passes, frigid air is expected to drop temperatures below freezing in most of the state except the far southern counties…
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Even though I spend most of my time either managing the UGA weather network or working as an agricultural climatologist, my degree is in meteorology and I am a Certified Consulting Meteorologist. As a meteorologist, I get asked lots of questions about things like forecasts and climate change that occur…
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Here’s a summary of the 2019 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean showing some of the unusual facts about this year’s season, including two category-5 storms, the strongest storm on record to hit the Bahamas (Dorian), the lack of activity in the Gulf of Mexico, and the fact that seven…
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A story in Yahoo News this week noted that a group of international scientists have recently announced a new method of predicting the occurrence of an El Niño in 2020, farther out that has ever been predicted before. Their method, using a computer model which looks at changing temperature patterns…
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While this blog has posted many stories about the impacts of storms like hurricanes on agriculture, they can also cause serious impacts on ecosystems and wildlife. This article from Morning Ag Clips discusses some research underway by University of Georgia scientists on the impacts of high winds and waves on…
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