Events
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On Thursday August 14 at 1 pm EDT I will be giving a webinar on work I have done as a forensic meteorologist for the CoCoRaHS group. Here is the blurb for the webinar: Television shows featuring detectives who use cutting-edge science to solve crimes are among the most popular programs on television today. But…
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UGA Geography professor Dr. Marshall Shepherd is hosting a new Sunday morning talk show on The Weather Channel called “Weather Geeks” (or WxGeeks). This show airs at noon and lasts for 30 minutes with breaks for “Weather on the 8s.” This show is designed to talk about the science of weather and climate at a…
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I will be participating in the netcast for WeatherBrains tonight, Monday July 28, to discuss this blog and the general topic of climate and agriculture. This live webcast, which is also archived as a podcast, is hosted by Dr. James Spann, a famous broadcast meteorologist from Birmingham AL, along with several other meteorologists, and is…
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I’m excited to be attending my first NACAA (National Association of County Agricultural Agents) conference in Mobile AL this week. I’ll be participating in several sessions on climate and agriculture. If you are there, you might be interested in attending one or more of them. On Monday afternoon there are two concurrent sessions on Climate…
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Twenty years ago this weekend, central Georgia experienced the massive flooding from Tropical Storm Alberto. The current 24 hour rainfall record for Georgia, 21.10 inches, fell in Americus on July 6, 1994 during the storm. The extreme rainfall caused tremendous devastation in Macon, Montezuma, Albany and other areas in central and southwest Georgia. Here are…
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Growing Georgia published an article earlier this week describing how cattle from the Southeast could repopulate the national cattle herd, which is at a 50-year low. “The South accounts for only 17 percent of the herd today, but with advances in forages and relatively mild weather, the region might account for more of the country’s…
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June 1 marks the beginning of the official Atlantic hurricane season. Early in the season, most storms form in the Caribbean Sea and near North America rather than farther out in the Atlantic, as is the case later in the season. And sure enough, this year we have some signs of development in the Bay…