Sources of weather and climate data
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Here are some detailed global images of vegetation health, including several drought indices, fire danger and soil saturation maps as derived from the Suomi-NPP satellite. In addition to global maps you can view each variable by country. The detail is amazing! You can find out more about them at Climate.gov at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/global-vegetation-health-images or go directly to…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has an interesting blog post this morning by Corey Davis on the importance of CoCoRaHS observations to documenting extreme events. And North Carolina has had quite a few this year! Remember, this is March Madness for CoCoRaHS, so if you are interested in becoming an observer, you can…
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Once again it is time for the CoCoRaHS “March Madness” competition between states to see who will sign up the most new CoCoRaHS observers. So far this year, after six days, Florida with 24 new observers is edging out North Carolina with 21. South Carolina has 11 and Georgia just three, while Alabama has yet…
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NOAA has a web page available which contains a variety of resources on spring safety. You can access it at https://www.weather.gov/wrn/spring-safety. It includes information on preparing a spring emergency kit, high surf, lightning safety, and other related topics.
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Today is a good day to remind folk that the Midwestern Regional Climate Center has a number of freeze map products available at their VIP site (Vegetation Impact Program). The site has national maps for a number of different parameters like median date of last spring frost (you choose 32 F or 28 F). Check…
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From my Facebook feed from Marshall Shepherd: “Here is one of many examples of how warming winters and earlier warming impact you. UGA geology professor Steven Holland has been tracking emergence of pollen in Athens since 2013. Note that it has gotten earlier and earlier. Already appearing in Feb 2017. Geez. Now, we cannot draw…
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For those of you who are trying to find climate data and can’t get a hold of me, NOAA has put together a handy web page which tells you how you can search through their multitude of data sets to find what you need. You can read about the process and visit the starting page…