Sources of weather and climate data
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There are many places to get climate information online, but they aren’t always easy to find. NOAA’s Climate.gov page has provided a link to a new interactive web source that contains a lot of their climate data sets in one place. You can read the documentation on the source at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/monthly-climate-conditions-interactive-map or go directly to the…
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My meeting in Asheville NC ended today with presentations from a number of federal agencies who are involved in collecting and disseminating climate information. The biggest of all is the National Centers for Environmental Information, previously called the National Climatic Data Center, which is mainly located in Asheville just down the street from where we…
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One of the products featured at this week’s AASC meeting in Asheville is a new atlas of precipitation patterns and probabilities in the Carolinas which was developed by the Carolinas RISA project in conjunction with the National Integrated Drought Information System in the past few years. It provides a number of maps and other resources…
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Another group that is involved with the American Association of State Climatologists at their annual meeting this week is NOAA’s regional climate centers. There are six of them around the US, including the Southeast Regional Climate Center which provides great information and tools like the Climate Perspectives tool. Like state climatologists, regional climate center folk…
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Later today I will be headed north to Asheville NC to meet with the American Association of State Climatologists, my favorite professional organization, and one I’ve been associated with since 1990. This group of dedicated individuals provide weather and climate information to groups in almost every state in the US, and you won’t meet a…
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NOAA’s Climate Toolkit has a unique new tool that allows emergency managers and public health departments identify people who are vulnerable to loss of electrical power. It links a database of Medicare beneficiaries who use electric adaptive devices to current weather hazards to identify how many people in an affected area would be affected by…
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NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information put out a very interesting article and accompanying video on how their climate and weather data are used in management decisions by businesses and manufacturing plants to minimize economic losses. Of course farmers already do this to help plan farm activities and determine crop varieties to plant, but you…