Events
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In honor of the Super Bowl festivities today, here are some statistics on the weather extremes of past Super Bowl events, compiled by William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center. SUPER BOWL EXTREMES 17 of the past 50 Bowls have been played outdoors, leaving it up to Mother Nature to add the element of…
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In the larger scheme of things, celebrating your local meteorologist is probably not high on the list. However, in honor of today’s designation of National Weatherperson’s Day, I offer a rerun of this Forbes.com blog post by Marshall Shepherd of UGA, “Debunking 5 Myths about Meteorologists”. Meteorologists are at work 24-7-366 (it’s leap year) providing…
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If you own a personal weather station (PWS), such as one by Davis Instruments, and do not know about the Weather Underground network of stations across the United States, you might be interested in learning more about this network. CoCoRaHS is offering a webinar on Thursday, January 28 at 1 pm Eastern Time to discuss…
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If you have been getting questions about the Paris climate meetings and don’t know how to answer them, you might find the fact sheet from the World Bank listed on the website below helpful. It organizes the agreements from the meeting in a simple, easy-to-understand fashion. You can check it out at https://www.securenutritionplatform.org/Pages/DisplayResources.aspx?RID=388.
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Even though it’s been nice and warm in much of the Southeast so far this fall, colder weather is on the way. The National Weather Service is holding Winter Weather Preparedness Week on November 30-December 4 to help residents prepare for the winter storms that may come later this cold season. You can visit https://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/?n=wwpw2015 to…
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I’ve been getting a few questions about the Paris climate meeting that is starting on Monday. You may be as well. Here is a blog post from Dr. Marshall Shepherd providing the history of these big climate meetings in the past and what they hope to accomplish in this meeting. You can read it at https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2015/11/25/so-what-is-this-paris-climate-meeting-anyway-the-basics-of-cop21/. …
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VORTEX is the acronym for a set of scientific field observation programs focusing on the life cycles of tornadoes. In the past, the VORTEX programs have focused on tornadoes in the central US in what is considered the traditional “Tornado Alley”. Now, the next VORTEX program is coming to the Southeast, where tornadoes also occur…