Events
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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…
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The Capital Weather Gang posted an article describing some of the weather effects that are likely to be seen if you are in or near the path of totality on Monday August 21. Temperatures are likely to drop from the lack of incoming sunlight and clouds may also change since the daytime heating will be…
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This has been a pretty wet summer so far, and that means we probably have a better than usual chance of having some clouds for the eclipse on August 21. Even if the sky is completely cloud-covered, we will still experience effects from the eclipse, in particular the darkness that comes when most of the…
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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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NASA is asking for the help of citizen scientists to monitor weather conditions during the August 21 eclipse as it passes across the US. According to Popular Science, they are looking for people to download the GLOBE app to their smartphones and report changes in cloud cover and/or temperature during the eclipse as they are…
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I had the chance to go with George Wetzel, the NWS coop manager for the Peachtree City office, on Saturday when he gave a 20-year service award to Jack and Martha Beach, who have been providing daily weather observations at their home in Winterville GA as part of the cooperative observer program. They are also…
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If you follow the news at all, you are aware of the solar eclipse that will be viewed across the US, including a path of totality that stretches from coastal Oregon to South Carolina. But it’s summer, and you might wonder if clouds will obscure the view. Just in time, NOAA has produced a cloud…