There are a lot of different ways to get current weather information. One of the best ways to see weather patterns over space is to use a surface weather map to see what is happening in the atmosphere around you. Outside magazine provides a useful description of surface weather maps…
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Are you interested in seeing how climate is changing across the US over time? This came up for discussion on a listserve that I follow today. Here is a good description of an NCEI product that produces maps of trends over time for the lower 48 states: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/duct-tape-and-seesaws-climate-trends-101. You can…
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I have gotten a few questions about whether or not any of the smoke from all the wildfires in the West is reaching the Southeast. Here is a useful site that tells you where the smoke is. The site is at https://fire.airnow.gov/. I saw a little smoke on the morning…
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For those of you who are in Georgia, you might be interested in this new web site recently introduced by the Georgia Climate Project. You can see it at https://www.georgiaclimateproject.org/portal/. This portal is intended to provide resources to address how climate change is affecting different sectors of Georgia’s economy and…
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The Resilient Rural America Project is a program that is designed to help rural Americans become more resilient to extreme weather as well as changing climate conditions. You can read more about it at https://resilientruralamerica.org/. One of their major outputs so far has been an online module that rural communities…
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Today’s Drought Monitor shows that all of the lingering drought has been removed from the Southeast, although there are still a few small areas where residual abnormally dry conditions still exist. But large parts of the western US are in bad drought conditions. Where can you go to get more…
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After a too-close call with heat exhaustion with one of our fine UGA extension specialists yesterday (they shall remain nameless–fortunately recovered), it seems like a good time to remind you that high temperatures and high humidity do not do good things to the human body (or livestock, for that matter)….
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