Sources of weather and climate data
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I’ve been getting more and more reports of fires around the driest part of Georgia in the last few weeks. Not surprising considering the exceptional drought that has been expanding from the northwest to other parts of the state (with the except of the southeast, which has been well watered by Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew).…
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Do you love weather and climate? Do you want to more about it? If so, you won’t want to miss this CoCoRaHS week’s webinar on the COMET program. It’s being held Thursday October 20 at 1 pm EDT. According to the blurb, “The award-winning COMET Program has produced over 800 hours of online lessons in…
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In response to the tremendous flooding from Hurricane Matthew and CoCoRaHS’ new Condition Monitoring project, the State Climate Office of North Carolina is offering a webinar on Monday October 17 at 9:30 am EDT for current and potential CoCoRaHS members interested in adding condition monitoring to their list of citizen science activities. You can read…
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Deke Arndt posted an article last week in NOAA’s “Beyond the Data” blog on how to answer questions about extremes in temperature using the NCEI website and database. You can read about it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/back-basics-temperature-truisms. If you need this information for stations beyond the NCEI list, you can probably get them from your local state climatologist or…
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The National Ocean Service has provided a comprehensive archive of pictures of the coastline after the passage of Hurricane Matthew through the area. You can read about the database at https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/oct16/hurricane-matthew.html and access the full list of pictures from there.
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Just in time for the Hurricane Matthew floods, CoCoRaHS announces that they have transitioned their Drought Impact Reporter to a Condition Monitoring reporter. Now you can report both drought and flood conditions at your location. You might wonder who uses these reports. Well, they provide valuable information to the folks who are producing the Drought…
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Brain McCallum of the US Geological Survey published this note in his Facebook stream tonight. This unprecedented deployment of sensors in advance of the storm is going to give a fantastic database in the future to use to study storm surges along the coast. I applaud this effort and the folks that are making it…
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