Sources of weather and climate data
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A new fire-mapping online tool is now available for the Southeast. It enables resource managers to improve their regional or local approaches to managing wildfire risk and fire management needs through targeted prescribed burns and training. Fire management helps improve forest ecosystem health, increases timber values, reduces the risk of wildfire damage to life and…
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The North Carolina Climate Office and NC State Extension are planning the roll-out of a new climate data system by sponsoring a webinar on Monday, April 5, at 11 am. I am planning to attend to see what their new data access will look like and what data it covers. If you are interested, you…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has a new web site! It looks fresh and has a lot of great information. One of the products they have is a seasonal summary for the region. The latest one for December 2020-February 2021 is now available at https://sercc.com/periodic-reports-quarterly/. Go and read it, and take a look at their…
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If you live near a river or water body, you might wonder whether or not your property is in a flood plain. Here is a website which shows maps of flood risk for anywhere in Georgia. You can enter your address and it will create a map of your location with any flood plains that…
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In my work I use all different web sites to help me communicate how the climate is changing due to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. I was pleased to note earlier this week that the US Environmental Protection Agency has restored the online access to their climate change pages, including information on…
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Earlier this week, the USDA released a new soil moisture tool that is powered by NASA satellite data. The Crop Condition and Soil Moisture Analytics (Crop-CASMA) app provides access to high-resolution data from NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument. It will help researchers, meteorologists and farmers…
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If you’ve been reading this blog for long enough, you know that March is the month that we go cuckoo for CoCoRaHS! For those who don’t know, the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network is a group of citizen scientists who collect daily rainfall using an official CoCoRaHS rain gauge and report it on…