In spite of what your calendar says, for climatologists spring begins on March 1. If you are interested in why we use March 1 instead of the astronomical date, which this year is March 20, you can read about it in this blog post from the Illinois State Climatologist, Jim…
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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…
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On this date in 1870, the National Weather Service was born. “A Joint Congressional Resolution requiring the Secretary of War “to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent, and at other points in the States and Territories…and for giving notice on the…
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If you are interested in learning more about agricultural meteorology, you may be interested in joining this one-hour webinar offered by the CoCoRaHS folks. It is going to be held online on February 26 at 2 pm Eastern Time. You can register at http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk. You don’t have to be a CoCoRaHS…
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Did you know there was a day for your favorite weatherperson? Well, today is the day. According to this NWS web site (link), February 5 is National Weatherperson’s Day, commemorating the birth of John Jeffries in 1744. Jeffries, one of America’s first weather observers, began taking daily weather observations in…
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The title above is the subject of a talk I will be giving later this week. I’ll be headed to downtown Savannah on Thursday to participate in the annual Southeast Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Conference. Carrie Furman of UGA and I are giving a talk to the Organics section on…
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I’ll be taking a couple of weeks off to spend time with family and friends this holiday season, and I hope that you get the chance to do the same. I will be suspending entries to this blog until early January, when I will return to kick off the New Year with…
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