Sources of weather and climate data
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A couple of Facebook posts this morning remind me that it is time to think about cold weather returning to our region. NWS Peachtree City has posted freeze warnings for Saturday night into Sunday morning for the northeast Georgia mountains. At least one of the CoCoRaHS observers has already reported temperatures down to 28 F…
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The smell of smoke outside my office today is very strong. It’s due to the wild fires associated with the drought that are occurring across many parts of the Southeast this week. Marshall Shepherd provides some information about the smoky conditions at Forbes.com here. EPA also has a good site which shows the track of…
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Earlier this fall EPA announced that they have updated their web resources on climate impacts in the Southeast. You can find information on trends in temperature and precipitation around the region as well as projections for future conditions at https://www.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climate-impacts-southeast.
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If you are a CoCoRaHS precipitation observer, thank you! Here is a message from the CoCoRaHS headquarters about your end of the water year summaries and how to get your Certificate of Appreciation. If you are not yet an observer, won’t you consider joining? I admit it’s a little frustrating to enter a “0” every…
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USGS has a useful set of maps depicting the number of dry days or wet days in a row counting back from the current date. You can find them at https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/usraindry. Check out the map below showing the number of days since it has rained! Hat tip to Scott Doering, my Facebook friend, for sharing them.…
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If you are looking for information on forestry in Georgia, there is a new web site which you might find useful. It provides statistics by state, region and county, although statistics are not available for every county. You can find information on the web site here.
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Even though we are close to setting high temperature records today in some areas of the Southeast, climatology tells us that winter is coming (either that or Game of Thrones). The Southeast Regional Climate Center posted a link on Facebook today to a snowfall climatology put together by the Midwestern Regional Climate Center which covers…