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For meteorologists and climatologists, September 1 is the first day of fall. So if you are tired of hot, humid days (fortunately not as many as usual this year) you will enjoy the change of the seasons. In fact, the next week or so will be below normal in temperature, giving us an earlier than…
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People around the Southeast marked the solar eclipse of August 21 in a number of ways. In Athens I joined a group of almost 30,000 students, staff, faculty and friends in Sanford Stadium to watch the skies get dark at 99.15% totality. In North Carolina, the State Climate Office folks watched the skies and took…
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CLN/ANREP-CSI Webinar: Register Now ! The Cattle Comfort Advisor: a Tool for Managing Heat & Cold Stress Albert Sutherland Oklahoma Mesonet Agriculture Program Coordinator Oklahoma State University Assistant Extension Specialist Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 3:00pm EDT Join us to learn how to use the Cattle Comfort Advisor, a powerful now tool for managing livestock comfort.…
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As the eclipse passed us yesterday, scientists were carefully studying not only the outer atmosphere of the sun, or corona, which is normally hidden in the glare from the main ball of the sun, but also the impacts of the eclipse on Earth’s atmosphere. In Athens we noticed that the fair-weather cumulus clouds we often…
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Lots of great images today from the eclipse! I was at 99.1% totality at Sanford Stadium in Athens GA with about 30,000 other people watching the darkness descend. Here’s a great shot from the VIIRS satellite radiometer showing the shadow over the Southeast. The text explanation is below. You can also watch video of the…
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Dr. Cliff Mass of the University of Washington has a nice discussion of how the weather conditions across the United States are expected to change as the sun goes dark tomorrow with the solar eclipse. In the Southeast, temperatures could drop by more than 10 degrees in some areas near totality. You can read about…
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Traffic in advance of Monday’s total solar eclipse is already causing blockages of some roads leading into and out of the region of totality. Dairy farmers there depend on regular movement of trucks into and out of the area to bring in feed and take away milk, so they have been concerned about how the…