Sources of weather and climate data
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Much colder than normal minimum temperatures were felt across most of the Southeast on the morning of September 14. This map from the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool shows the ranking of reporting stations across the area. Several stations reported their all-time lowest temperature for the date, including Macon GA, Charlotte NC, and Jacksonville…
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Occasionally I’ve been asked where the cleanest air in the US is located. This is especially important for those who have health issues related to breathing, such as COPD, allergies, or cystic fibrosis. It can be hard to find this information since monitoring is usually done by individual state agencies who don’t all use the…
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The last 30 days have been very wet in parts of Florida, although the southern tip is quite dry and is in extreme drought. The map below from https://water.weather.gov/precip shows that some areas of western Florida north and south of Tampa have an excess of 8 inches in just the last month. If the path…
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If you need climate data from National Weather Service locations, the NWS reminds you that there is an easy way to get it. Go to https://w2.weather.gov/climate/ and click on your city of interest to go to their local climate page. If you click on NOWData on the right side of the top menu, you will…
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Seasonal forecasts are available from a number of sources, including the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). Today the Illinois State Climatologist, Jim Angel, wrote in his blog about another CPC source of monthly and seasonal forecasts at https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/NMME/seasanom.shtml. The North American Multi-Model Ensemble provides forecasts from different climate…
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The National Hurricane Center has declared that the area of interest they’ve been watching in the eastern Atlantic Ocean has a closed circulation by looking at satellite wind data. They have identified it as Tropical Depression 4. Models suggest that it will continue to strengthen during the day today and should become Tropical Storm Danny…
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The National Weather Service sent out a notice this week announcing the availability of JetStream, their free online course on the weather. You can access the course at https://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/. Here is how they describe the course: “Welcome to JetStream, the National Weather Service Online Weather School. This site is designed to help educators, emergency managers,…