Even though this has nothing to do with climate and agriculture, I still find this a fascinating study. The Washington Post published an article yesterday on a new NASA-based study showing major increases in lighting as viewed from satellites in December compared to other times of year. They attribute it…
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FiveThirtyEightScience published an interesting article this week on using statistics to determine which parts of the US had the most and least predictable weather. They used a combination of ten different variables including max and min temperature, precipitation, winds and severe weather to determine how changeable each value was. The…
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NOAA’s website Climate.gov has just released a short video describing how one Alabama farmer uses climate forecasts to improve his farm operation. Their blurb and the links to two versions of the video are below: “Alabama grower Myron Johnson talks about how learning to use seasonal outlooks for rain and…
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The wind map for tonight shows a strong frontal boundary just about to hit Dallas this evening and stretching up to Columbus OH. You can see it as a sharp transition of wind direction from winds from the south ahead of the front (which gave us our nice warm weather…
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My meteorologist and climatologist friends have been posting one story after another about the extreme cold weather we have experienced in the past day. Today many areas set records for low maximum temperature, and some record lows were set. Tomorrow morning, many more record lows are expected to be broken….
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The current outbreak of cold air that has moved into the Southeast from Canada is blowing strongly outside my window tonight, dropping temperatures quickly to near-freezing levels. This outbreak is so strong that it has produced a “Tehuantepecer” or flow across Mexico from the Gulf of Mexico into the Pacific…
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Here is the 4 pm temperature map from the Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network: And here is the surface analysis at the same time: Can you find the front on the temperature map? Cold fronts mark the boundary between warm air in place and the cold air that is advancing…
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