Sources of weather and climate data
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Hourly weather forecasts are something that you might find useful in planning your work week or watching for the possibility of frost (or extreme heat in the summer). You can use your local television forecast or a smartphone app to get forecasts, but they don’t always show the forecast right at your location. Here is…
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Every month NOAA publishes a monthly climate summary which contains information about the ranking of temperature and precipitation by state, climate division, and region as well as statistics on how warm or cold, wet or dry each region is. But there is a wealth of additional information you might not know about. Deke Arndt of…
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Chris McGehee, the state coordinator for CoCoRaHS in Georgia, noted today that we just passed the 10th birthday from the establishment of CoCoRaHS in Georgia. Here is her comment from Facebook: “The actual date snuck by me… I just realized that Georgia CoCoRaHS’ first stations were defined on Feb 20th, 2008, so we are officially…
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March is the traditional month for recruiting new volunteer precipitation observers to the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network, usually called CoCoRaHS. Every year they run a contest to see which state can recruit the most new observers. Usually North Carolina leads the Southeast, followed by Florida, while other states like Georgia lag behind.…
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As you know, the last few weeks have been much MUCH above normal in temperature across the Southeast, with temperatures in many places setting daily records for maximum and high minimum temperatures and quite a few stations expected to set all-time February daily and monthly records. One of the results of this warm weather is…
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Here’s some interesting information about a source of weather forecast data that might be useful for farmers across the Southeast, from Mark Hoffmann at our sister UGA Extension blog on viticulture. Note that the six-day forecast for humidity, wind, dew/frost and other variables will be good for planning field work for many crops, not just…
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Here is a fun tool from the New York Times. You type in your city (there are 3800 possibilities) and see a daily record of high and low temperature and monthly accumulated precipitation, with annotations for records. I have it set to Atlanta but you can easily check your own city. Try it at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/21/world/year-in-weather.html#atl.