Sources of weather and climate data
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Today is a transition day for Dr. Ryan Boyles, the North Carolina State Climatologist who has been one of the most active state climatologists in the country and who was featured on this blog in July 2015. Ryan is moving to the Department of the Interior’s Southeast Climate Science Center and will serve there as…
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The latest webinar from the CoCoRaHS network is now available and the Southeast is the star! You can listen to the archived presentation by Dr. Chip Konrad, the head of the Southeast Regional Climate Center, at https://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk50. In the webinar Chip discusses both the geographic patterns of climate across the region and trends in extreme weather…
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I’m taking a break from the blog for ten days while I attend a conference on high impact weather and climate and celebrate my my 25th wedding anniversary with my husband John Knox and friends. While I’m gone, you can find a list of web sites that you can use to find your own weather and…
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I am sitting here at my house listening to thunder roar and the rain pour down. Serves me right for talking about drought expanding this week! I want to show you from my own experience why networks like CoCoRaHS are so important. The map below shows the radar-estimated storm total rainfall from the NWS Peachtree…
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Summer temperatures for the United States as a whole are getting warmer based on instrumental records kept by NOAA as well as other groups. In some places in the north, that is not all bad. However, in places that are already warm, hotter temperatures could cause economic losses from increased use of air conditioning, reduced…
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Today marks the 18th birthday of the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, more frequently known as CoCoRaHS. Nolan Doesken, the founder of the network, has some interesting information on how the network got started in his most recent newsletter, which you can read here. I have been a CoCoRaHS observer in Clarke County,…
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Even though it has been hot and mostly dry in the Southeast, in France and Spain soggy weather has caused problems for farmers as well as contributing to the floods that have plagued Paris in recent weeks. AgWeb posted an article this week saying that wheat harvesting is 8-10 days behind normal due to the…