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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…