Climate summaries
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If you like to get regular briefings on current weather and climate conditions, you should consider subscribing to the National Weather Service Southeast River Forecast Center’s YouTube channel. On that site they give informative video updates on current water conditions around the Southeast, usually once every few weeks. It would be especially helpful to those…
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I am giving a webinar on Friday February 27 at 11:00 am Eastern discussing the climate of 2014 and the outlook for 2015 for the Southeast. The webinar is sponsored by the Southern Region Extension Climate Academy (SRECA) working group but it is freely available to anyone interested. If you would like to join in,…
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After any winter storm, armchair meteorologists complain about how bad the forecast was, how the National Weather Service and broadcast meteorologists blew it, and how disappointed they are. Dr. Marshall Shepherd, UGA Geography professor, put together this side-by-side comparison to show that in this very tricky situation, the NWS did a fantastic job of getting…
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The EDEN Wednesday blog posting linked to a great article by Tom Skilling of WGN in Chicago describing more about the current weather pattern that has been affecting weather across the country. Tom is one of the premier meteorologists in media today, and his blog posting does a great job of explaining the current climate…
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AgWeb published a story today on predictions that farmers in the northern part of the country may face delays in spring planting due to the winter conditions this year. The maps below show the 60 day departures from normal for temperature (left) and precipitation (right) from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. The combination of…
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NOAA has just released their final summary of the 2014 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean (link to storm summaries). It shows that the season was below average in activity, as expected, and that not a single storm hit the US mainland this year except a brush by Arthur on the North Carolina Outer Banks. Since…
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The Southeast continues to lie under a mass of frigid air that came over the pole from Siberia, as I discussed in my post yesterday. This morning many record low temperatures were set, including a new record low for Key West, FL of 50 degrees. Fortunately, the winds were a bit lighter today so it…