Sources of weather and climate data
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The National Weather Service has posted an updated web site which provides links to a number of different weather and climate information online resources, including information on where to get weather stations, specialized forecasts for agriculture, and weather insurance. You can find it at https://www.weather.gov/enterprise/.
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The Florida State Climatologist, David Zierden, noted this week that they have a new web site for the Florida Climate Center. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/. Take a look and see what you think!
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Have you ever needed to settle a bar bet about the weather but did not know where to go to get the right information? Or maybe you just have a weather-crazy kid or grandkid that wants to know everything they can about the worst weather ever. This web site is for you–the State Climate Extremes…
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If you are a Georgia Extension agent, you may have stopped by my table at the meeting down in Tifton this week to see my CoCoRaHS rain gauge and checked your county to see how many rainfall observers your county has. But whether you have 50 or none, we would love to add your new…
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While the Southeast is not ever likely to be a big wind energy producer because of our relatively low wind speeds, there is still some potential for wind energy development in mountainous areas and along the coast. Here is a useful website that contains maps of potential wind energy for each state and for the…
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The Midwestern Regional Climate Center has a new online tool based on GIS that allows you to find record temperature and precipitation values for each station in the US. As far as I can tell, it does not included threaded records like the long combined city/airport stations in major cities, but does include the most…
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Here is an interesting site that shows what your weather will be like over the next few days by plotting the results of several different weather models side by side. When the models agree, the lines are all close together, indicating good agreement. When they diverge, then you know the models are less certain. In…