Sources of weather and climate data
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Here is a useful interactive web site you might find useful in looking at the rain in the Southeast this week. It allows you to zoom and to look at future rain forecasts as well as current radar conditions, satellite imagery, and flood watches and warnings. You can find it by clicking here.
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Last night was a doozy for those of us living right in Athens, GA. From about 9:30 pm to just shy of 11:30 pm, the airport received 4.96 inches of rain. Strong thunderstorm cells rained continuously over the area with only minor movement over the 2-hour period. I live about a mile south of the…
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William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center pointed out a great source of historical hurricane track information to me today. You can find it at https://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/index.php. This provides the best known tracks to hurricanes going back to 1851. (The map below is for 1893 just because it has a lot of tracks on it.) Obviously,…
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I am happy to announce the birth of a new website for the University of Georgia automated weather station network. You can still find the main portal at https://www.georgiaweather.net/, although that may change in the future. The website has a fresh new look and more readily available information. I encourage you to visit them and see…
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Growing Georgia reprinted a story by Merritt Melancon of UGA on the recent string of very hot days here in Athens and other parts of Georgia yesterday. You can read it here. Another story about the hot weather appeared this morning in OnlineAthens.com here. Both of them use information I provided from a number of…
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I got a request from one of the Georgia extension agents for some average evapotranspiration data. You might be asked about this too, so I thought I would post the information here. I found these curves for some Georgia locations from a paper published by Suleiman and Hoogenboom in the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage…
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The US Climate Resilience Toolkit has a website that allows you to look at past and projected future climate trends for different climate scenarios. They introduced it at a media event this week. You can visit it at https://toolkit.climate.gov/climate-explorer2/. I am still learning how it works, but there seems to be a lot of useful information…