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If you are an astronomer, today marks the official start of astronomical summer (for climatologists, it started on June 1). The sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky at 12:39 PM EDT. You can read about the solstice at https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/june-solstice.html. EarthSky also has a nice gallery of photos taken at Stonehenge in England, where the…
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I want to take a minute to recognize Jordan McLeod, former University of Georgia graduate student, as the winner of the 2014-2015 WxChallenge, a yearly national collegiate weather forecasting competition. You can read the UGA press release here. Jordan is now a climatologist with the Southeast Regional Climate Center in Chapel Hill, NC, a great source…
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The Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, called CoCoRaHS for short, is a network of volunteer precipitation observers across the US and now into Canada as well. They collect daily rainfall observations in a set of uniform rain gauges and enter the data into their website at https://www.cocorahs.org. Today is CoCoRaHS’s 17th birthday. Here…
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The Southeast Climate Consortium is holding a one-day workshop on Agricultural Solutions in Orange Beach AL on August 10. [NOTE this is a correction from the original post, which said Orange Beach FL.] At this workshop you can learn about a variety of weather- and climate-related topics, including irrigation, cover crops, and AgroClimate. A forecast…
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Since today is D-Day, you may be interested in the importance of weather forecasting to the success of the mission. The History Channel has an excellent write-up of why the forecasters were so crucial to picking the best date for the massive invasion here. Another short article on the forecasts is at https://www.alabamawx.com/?p=61139. I camped…
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Today is June 1, and that means the official start to the Atlantic hurricane season. Of course, this year we’ve already been visited by Tropical Storm Ana, which brought rain to the eastern Carolinas and some high surf along the coast. Quite a few other seasons had a storm before the “official” start date, so…
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The official start to the Atlantic hurricane season is June 1. As we saw this year with Tropical Storm Ana, sometimes the storms come even before the official season begins. In preparation for June 1, the National Weather Service is holding Hurricane Preparedness Week May 24-30. You can read about it at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/. The week will…