Sources of weather and climate data
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There are many sources of climate data online. I’ve discussed a number of them before, and you can find them by searching this blog for the category “Sources of weather and climate data.” Here are a few more tools that you can use to look at trends in climate and some other related information over…
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Walter Reeves, the “Georgia Gardener”, has some information on plant hardiness zones and how to choose appropriate plants that Georgia gardeners may find useful as we go into the fall season and look forward to next spring. You can find it at https://www.walterreeves.com/gardening-q-and-a/hardiness-zones-for-georgia/. Happy planting!
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Blairsville Experiment Station in far north-central Georgia had their first frost of fall 2015 on October 17, when it got down to 30.4 F, according to the UGA weather network at https://www.georgiaweather.net. Blairsville is one of the coldest parts of Georgia, and thus one of the first regions in the state to get frost. I’ve gotten…
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The month of October so far this year has been very dry and warm across most of the country. The exception: the Southeast, where the heavy rains in South Carolina show up as the only green spot in a sea of red. Other areas in the Southeast have been dry as most of the rainfall…
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I want to recognize Mr. Willis Swint of Jonesboro GA this week for receiving the Thomas Jefferson Award from NOAA for his 56 years of service as a National Weather Service cooperative observer. In all of those years, Mr. Swint has never missed an observation. That is 20,440 consecutive days of measuring temperature and precipitation! …
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In my series on sources of climate data I mentioned the regional climate centers as a great source of information both for specific regions and for national perspectives. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center has a couple of new products that you might be interested in. One feature that has many national aspects is their new…
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I wanted to take a moment today to recognize the incredible work by the National Weather Service in warning about the tremendous flooding that affected South Carolina this week. These dedicated public servants work 24/7 to provide timely and useful weather and river forecasts for all of us every day, and often go out of…