Sources of weather and climate data
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Reporters often ask me about how a month or a season ranked compared to other years of record. I like to use the Southeastern Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool to help determine that. You can use the link https://www.sercc.com/perspectives?user=true and set your own start and end point to pick the time period of interest. For most…
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The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has a page which allows you to graph accumulated precipitation for selected stations across the country and compare this year to previous years. These graphs are called Haywood plots and you can view the current graphs at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/dyk/elnino-2015-2016 under “Haywood Plots”. Previous strong El Niños are highlighted in blue with…
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Sometime later this week NOAA should publish the statistics on fall climate for the US. The maps below show the temperature and precipitation departures for the Southeast from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. While temperatures were a bit above normal almost everywhere in the Southeast, the real story is the very wet conditions across…
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Have you ever planned an event or meeting and then worried about the impact of weather on whether or not you might have to cancel it? I’ve had to cancel workshops at the last minute due to ice storms in the past, and it is always tough to make the call in enough time to…
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It is probably no surprise to farmers that frost varies widely across their farms, depending on soil type, soil moisture, and elevation. Rome Ethredge discusses this in a Seminole Crop E News blog post from earlier today, including some of my thoughts on local variations. If you are interested in seeing the extent of the last…
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I’ve been asked why the National Weather Service Office in Peachtree City, GA, is not issuing freeze warnings today even though tonight is the first expected occurrence of killing frost this year for parts of north and central Georgia. You can see the hole in the warnings on the national warning map below. Freeze warnings (dark…
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As a cold front moves through the region today, a few spotty showers are being kicked off. The real story will be the chilly air that is ushered in behind it. Saturday night may see frost in the northern part of Georgia, but Sunday night into Monday morning will see much colder temperatures. Frost and…