Sources of weather and climate data
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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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If you’ve ever been asked about how often a certain weather type occurs on a holiday like Christmas, you will love this new feature in the cli-MATE database from the Midwestern Regional Climate center. They now allow you to choose from one of 19 different holidays, including those pesky ones that change date from one…
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Becky Griffin from UGA’s Center for Urban Ag has a new publication out on starting a school garden. You can find it at https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.cfm?number=C1101. It has some great ideas for organizing it! I would add that adding a rain gauge or weather instruments to the garden is a great way to teach the kids about…
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All eyes among my meteorologist friends as well as many others are on the tropics as Hurricane Matthew moves north through the Bahamas today headed towards the Southeast. If you live within 100 miles of the coast, I hope you have made preparations for the storm, which is likely to be the worst that most…
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A small area of D4 exceptional drought was introduced to Georgia in this week’s Drought Monitor in the far northwest part of the state. This is the first time that anywhere in Georgia has seen exceptional drought since February 5, 2013 (although that was in central Georgia). Severe drought expanded in Alabama, including a region…
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Did you know that when you fly, if you use the plane’s WiFi you have access to more current and detailed weather information than the pilots who are flying your aircraft do? Not having the best weather information has led to planes flying directly through thunderstorms and even hail shafts, causing damage to planes and…