Sources of weather and climate data
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I am holding a training meeting on Tuesday February 7 at 11 am EST on sources of weather and climate data for Extension agents. The meeting will focus on Georgia data sources but many of the sources are national or regional so others may find it helpful. It won’t be an exhaustive list but it…
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Alabama Extension now has a new website devoted to information about drought in the region as well as methods that farmers can use to deal with the impacts of drought on their livestock and crops. You can visit it at https://drought.aces.edu/.
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Because of this year’s warm weather throughout the winter months, the accumulated chill hours that we have seen this year are even lower than last year’s values, and is only about 50% of what we usually expect by this time of year. If we use previous years of weather data to project the range of…
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Final reports on Hurricane Hermine and Tropical Storm Julia are now available from the National Hurricane Center. You can find the one for Hermine at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092016_Hermine.pdf and the one for Julia at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL112016_Julia.pdf. The report for Hurricane Matthew is still being finalized and will be available in a few weeks.
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Each year US Tornadoes keeps a web list of all of the large tornado outbreaks that have occurred. They use a baseline of 20 tornadoes in one event to define what an outbreak is. So far 2017 has had two outbreaks, including the one on January 2 and the one January 21-23. You can come…
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Now that the grant for “Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate” is ending, the course materials, including the original video modules and reference material, have been moved to the eXtension site for at least the next year. While the course is no longer offered, all of the materials can still be used for self-study. Many…
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I want to give a shout-out to the National Weather Service employees in the Southeast this week who have been out surveying tornado damage this week following the severe storms we had in several states. The map below shows the tornado tracks that have been identified by NWS employees from just the Peachtree City office…