Here’s a neat data project showing the most common crop by acreage for every county in the United States. The overall winner is—hay! Of course, there is a lot of variation, with the Corn Belt having the most acres in corn (big surprise!), South Georgia in cotton, and eastern North…
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If you are interested in learning about where lightning occurs most often, you will enjoy reading Vaisala’s annual report of lightning statistics based on their National Lightning Detection Network. You can access it at https://www.xweather.com/annual-lightning-report. It shows the areas with highest lightning density by state and how it compares to…
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Have you ever seen the Northern Lights? If you have lived in the Southeast all your life, most likely not. But when I lived in Wisconsin, I was blessed to see them once, on a cold winter night over a lake near my apartment. The red color was so intense…
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As we get closer to the cold and snow that is expected in the next few days, you may be interested in viewing where the biggest impacts are occurring, especially if you are going to be traveling. NOAA has a good map depiction of where winter storm impacts are expected…
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Here is an interesting map display from NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center that shows the daily distribution of lightning stokes across the United States. It is very interesting to see how the area of most lightning strikes moves around over the course of the year. You can view it at https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/dataviewer/?mode=climo&category=ltg&product=ltgday.
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If you love to look at pictures of clouds or want to know what kind of cloud or optical phenomenon you are seeing in the sky, this new cloud library is for you! The Cloud Appreciation Society has launched a new cloud library at https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-library/ that shows amazing pictures of…
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If you are interested in looking at “after” images of coastal areas after Hurricane Ian’s passage to see what damage occurred at particular properties, you can go here to view images taken from NOAA aircraft. By zooming in and out you can focus on particular locations. There should be imagery…
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