Sources of weather and climate data
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I am attending a virtual conference hosted by the Midwestern Regional Climate Center this week. One of the talks reminded me of the great resources they have on their web site. If you go to https://mrcc.illinois.edu/clim/ and look under Resources, you can find climate maps as well as GIS-based station statistics. They include national maps…
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At this time of year, fruit farmers are anxiously watching their chill hours to see if they have received enough cold weather to help their plants produce a good set of flower buds for spring bloom. In the past few years, some winters have been touch or go with having enough. Early this year, it…
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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 am pleased to note that…
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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 different economic sectors. If you…
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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 you want to see. The…
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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 Experimental Enhanced Data Display
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