Sources of weather and climate data
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I ran across some great resources on climate and agriculture from Iowa State’s Extension program. While some of them are specific to the Midwest and to corn production, most of them could be used in the Southeast as well. Check them out at https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Topic/Crops/Climate-and-Agriculture. Note that although it says “store” all of the items seem to…
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I spent today at a workshop in Rock Eagle, the 4-H camp near Eatonton GA, working with 4-H agents on ways to teach weather and climate in the classroom and in 4-H camp programs. The documentation for the toolkit is online and anyone can use it. The 4-H Weather and Climate Variability Toolkit is a collaborative…
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With another big outbreak of tornadoes in the central United States occurring this week, you might be interested in looking at maps which incorporate current storm reports into the record. The US Tornadoes blog posted an article last week about a new mapping tool which allows you to look at this year’s crop of tornado…
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According to a recent article in USA Today, the hotspot for lightning in the United States is located in Orangetree, Florida, a few miles southeast of Fort Myers on the southwest coast of the peninsula. This is based on a new satellite study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Globally, the most…
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If you are looking for information on recent severe weather in Georgia, here are a couple of articles that describe some of the conditions we have felt this month so far along with a tool for showing severe weather reports on an interactive map. I’ve also included a link to a NOAA retrospective on the…
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NASA has a new web site dedicated to providing resources on sea level for across the US. The site is available at https://sealevel.nasa.gov/. You can also read more about it at TechCrunch at https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/04/nasas-new-sea-level-site-puts-climate-change-papers-data-and-tools-online/. The site is focused on space-based observations (hence why it is coming from NASA instead of NOAA) but has plenty of land-based indicators…
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When you are looking for weather data, wouldn’t you love to have a site that has it all in one place? While I haven’t yet found a site that has everything I want, this Water Resources Dashboard from the US Climate Resilience Toolkit is pretty complete. Take a look at it and see if you…