Sources of weather and climate data
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As more greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere, Georgia’s climate is getting warmer and the rainfall patterns are changing. Future changes depend on actions that we take to curb the emissions. Drawdown Georgia has prepared a set of Georgia-specific climate projections for heat and rainfall trends through 2025 that look at how different decisions…
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A new study that was recently published in the journal Nature shows that scientists studying sea-level rise have been using methods that underestimate how high the water already is. One result is that hundreds of millions more people worldwide are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated, according…
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Evapotranspiration data is part of the necessary water balance information that farmers need to determine irrigation needs. But it has been hard for many producers to come by, especially in states without mesonets that calculate it using their meteorological data. Here is a new online source of ET information called OpenET that helps reduce that…
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If you use USGS streamflow, groundwater, or precipitation data, you will want to know about this. USGS is going through a modernization process and will be ending much of their pre-calculated statistics information by the end of 2025 or very early 2026. Thus, WaterWatch will be decommissioned. Realtime and monthly (for the prior month) streamflow percentiles will…
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What do mesonet operators do when they are not out in the field maintaining equipment? Just like everyone else, we go to meetings! For mesonet operators, we learn more about how to measure the weather accurately, do quality control on the data, and provide it to our users in an effective way. This article from…
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In news this week, it was reported that NASA as well as other government websites will no longer provide copies of the National Climate Assessments that are produced every four years at the request of Congress. I was an author of the Southeast chapter of NCA5. The group of authors that was starting to work…
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The regional climate centers, including the Southeast Regional Climate Center which provides a variety of weather and climate data as well as other services, are due to be shut down on April 17 due to the significant budget cuts to NOAA and the move away from climate services. Funding for the centers is working its…