Sources of weather and climate data
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Recently Athens received two new WeatherSTEM weather stations, one on the main UGA campus atop the Geography building and one at the State Botanical Gardens. Other locations around the Southeast have also received similar stations, and more are scheduled to go in. One of the products that WeatherSTEM puts out is a set of basic…
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High Country News had a fascinating article this week about one of the longest-serving National Weather Service cooperative observers. Anna Mae Wright is a farmer who has been taking daily weather observations since the late 1940s in Redrock, New Mexico, which means she has been observing for seven decades. The NWS has depended on faithful…
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NOAA has a great map feature called Data Snapshots that allows you to view historical maps of US and global data for precipitation and temperature as well as showing outlooks, drought, and the climatology of severe weather. You can view the maps at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/data-snapshots/start. The map below shows the precipitation for October 2015.
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One of the amazing things about this summer (to me) has been the unrelenting nature of the heat this year. We’ve had very few days over 100 F and most days were nowhere near a record temperature for the date, but the number of runs of days above thresholds like 90 F for max temperatures…
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Eleven years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast. One of the hardest hit areas was the Mississippi Coast, where Stennis Air Force Base is located. Many NOAA personnel were located there and suffered severe personal losses from the direct hit. Last year they put together a story site which contains information about…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced that fact sheets for each state describing how climate change is affect that state are now available. You can see the list and download them at https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts/state-impact-factsheets.html.
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NOAA announced that they have new and expanded tables of normal temperature and precipitation values now available on their web site. Typically, climatologists consider 30 year averages to be “normal” climate conditions, and they are updated every ten years. The current 30-year normal period is 1981-2010. But some groups like utilities want normals over different…