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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 northern lakes and 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 https://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk. You don’t have to be a CoCoRaHS observer to register. It will…
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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 Boston in 1774 and he…
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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 Friday morning at 10:15 am…
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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 the December and annual summaries.…
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The CoCoRaHS network (Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network) is a group of volunteer precipitation observers across the US (and a few in Canada) that take daily precipitation readings using a simple rain gauge and reporting online using a computer or smartphone app. I am a regional coordinator for this program, which has been…
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Today most of northeast Georgia is experiencing what natives often call “the wedge,” a shallow layer of cold air that moves down into the state along the east side of the Appalachian Mountains. The official description of this phenomenon is “cold air damming” because the mountains act as a natural dam that restricts the flow…