Sources of weather and climate data
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If you are a CoCoRaHS precipitation observer, you may be interested in this new website that allows you to check out the climatology of your station at https://dex.cocorahs.org/?skip=0&take=50. If you don’t know what CoCoRaHS is, check out their website at https://cocorahs.org/ and consider joining a great citizen science project measuring precipitation across the nations of…
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If you like to look at interesting visualizations of data, you may be interested in this new visualization of streamflow drought across the United States from USGS streamflow data. It uses bar graphs to show how long and how severe a drought got at particular streamflow gauges and how many gauges were affected by the…
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Climate.gov has an interesting new story map tool that allows you to look at the most extreme high temperatures at thousands of US weather stations across the country. It is interesting to see how the extreme highs vary across the country. In the Southeast, the hottest temperatures are not in Florida, where ocean temperatures may…
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I spent last week in Davenport, Iowa, attending the annual meeting of US mesonet operators. We learned a lot about the operations of other mesonets in states around the country and shared tips on funding, instrumentation, web access, and crew safety. We also learned about new equipment and new networks that are coming online. One…
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Here is a very helpful online tool that I used today for creating custom maps of NCEI normals for anywhere in the United States that you might like to try. It was created by the Northeast Regional Climate Center and is located at https://ncei-normals-mapper.rcc-acis.org/. It is quite easy to use. It allows you to pick…
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I have been getting comments and questions about whether smoke from the Canadian fires is affecting us here in Georgia. I definitely saw some today, although here it is quite high in the sky and we can’t smell any smoke. However, if you go farther north into North Carolina and Virginia, things are quite a…
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Using the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool allows us to look at historical records for both the region as a whole through maps and individual stations. I looked at their map for year-to-date mean temperature rankings tonight. It shows that for many parts of the Southeast, this year so far is in the top…