Sources of weather and climate data
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Here are a list of a few online and in-person courses that I have seen listed in recent weeks. The Warnell School of Forestry at UGA is offering an in-person course on “Managing Forest Health, Wildlife and Productivity” on October 4-5 in Athens, GA. Course content will center on landscape-scale forest health issues related to…
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The University of Georgia recently received two automated weather stations from the WeatherSTEM network, a nationwide network of weather observers focusing on improving education on atmospheric and other sciences like oceanography and astronomy. You can see the output from our stations by going to https://athensclarke.weatherstem.com/ or visit WeatherSTEM for more information at https://www.weatherstem.com/. WeatherSTEM provides educational…
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I’m always interested in new ways to display weather and climate data. Here are a couple of recent web sites that allow you zoom to different spatial scales and choose from a lot of different variables. Geo Awesomeness described a new weather mapping site called Ventusky.com which allows you to look at many different variables…
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Once in a while I need access to USGS topographic maps. I’ve had a hard time finding them online. But now National Geographic has a quick and easy way to get access to them. You can find a description online at https://petapixel.com/2016/08/06/nat-geo-launches-free-website-printing-detailed-topographical-maps/. The portal is at https://www.natgeomaps.com/trail-maps/pdf-quads.
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I was pleased to meet with the ANR extension agents in Southeast Georgia today in Brunswick and talk to them about sources of weather and climate information. I mentioned fact sheets on Southeast climate but did not provide the web link, so here it is: https://agroclimate.org/fact-sheets-climate.php. If you are interested in producing similar fact sheets for…
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Today marks the 43rd day in a row of high temperatures in Athens GA that were at or above 90 F. This ties us with the all-time record set in 2011, based on records going back to about 1903 combined from the city and airport data. Will we break the record tomorrow? It will be…
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The College of DuPage web site has updated satellite images which show the slowly spinning low pressure that is bringing rain to parts of the Southeast. I’ve put one from the afternoon of August 8 below. It shows the low slowly meandering across Georgia. You can also see it in the radar picture, which I’ve…