The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, show only small increases in abnormally dry (D0) conditions this week in Georgia and South Carolina. No substantial changes are expected next week. In Puerto Rico, there were slight increases in moderate (D1) drought. You can view the weekly DM at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/.
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As a former State Climatologist of Wisconsin and a former assistant State Climatologist of Georgia, I am very proud of state climatologists around the country, many of whom also run weather networks like I do and who provide service to a wide array of stakeholders on a daily basis. I…
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The Drought.gov web site has gotten a fresh new look! The new Drought.gov includes easily accessible and shareable information, up-to-date drought conditions and forecasts down to the county and city level, interactive maps and data that don’t exist anywhere else, and a new “By Sector” section showing drought’s impacts on…
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Here is a new web site that you can use to show year-to-date temperature and precipitation for individual stations across the US. It includes accumulated degree days as well. You can view it here and click to pick your station of interest. Use the Layer list to pick what variables…
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If you don’t like the new NWS radar site which I discussed earlier this week, you might be interested in checking out these two alternate sites. They have the same information but in a different format that might be easier to learn. National Severe Storms Lab Operational Product Viewer NWS…
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Did you know that the National Weather Service is about to update their radar web site? If you use it already, you may have seen notices that the old site is going away because Flash is also going away. Their new improved web site launches this week. You can learn…
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The US Geological Survey has a new online dashboard for their data which is going to be the ongoing major source of all USGS data. It also includes additional data from a number of other sources like the National Weather Service and is supposed to be more mobile-friendly than their…
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