The North Carolina State Climate Office has a new map product that allows you to plot maps of trends in temperature and precipitation over selected time periods across North Carolina and the Southeast. The map shows positive and negative trends for individual stations across a time period you choose and…
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Here is a website that has monthly temperature and precipitation maps for the continental US going back to the 1920s. You can use it to look up what the anomalies and extreme climate were for any month since then. Just for fun I produced the map below showing the extent…
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On April 1, 1960, the world’s first operational weather satellite was launched into space. It opened a new world of information to meteorologists since it could see the weather in areas where there were no surface observations, such as over the oceans and the poles. Now the vast majority of…
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At our UGA cotton field day today, someone mentioned to me that they are having trouble doing degree day calculations that depend on specific bases for different crops, diseases, or insect development. You can see a list of bases for a variety of crops from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center…
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Here is an interesting product that I found online when doing a search for a climatology of lightning strikes. It is an experimental product from the Medford OR National Weather Service office and was developed to help with lightning-initiated wildfires. It shows a count or frequency table of lightning strikes…
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The US Geological Survey has a great dashboard for looking at a variety of surface water and groundwater information as well as rainfall and some atmospheric parameters. You can view the dashboard at https://dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov/app/nwd/?aoi=default. I think it even has a tutorial available somewhere on the website, although I have not…
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I use the Midwestern Regional Climate Center’s website every week to obtain climate information for data requests I get or studies I am working on. This week the MRCC moved from Champaign IL to Purdue IN. It now has a new website at https://mrcc.purdue.edu. To use their CLI-MATE software, you…
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