Sources of weather and climate data
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In yesterday’s post I pointed to a composite map from Florida State Climatologist David Zierden showing that on the average, May and June in strong El Nino years are wet and July and August are dry. This year, the wet conditions have certainly occurred in Texas and Oklahoma, but not in the Southeast, as…
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The Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, called CoCoRaHS for short, is a network of volunteer precipitation observers across the US and now into Canada as well. They collect daily rainfall observations in a set of uniform rain gauges and enter the data into their website at https://www.cocorahs.org. Today is CoCoRaHS’s 17th birthday. Here…
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Since it is halfway through June, let’s take a look at how the region is stacking up so far. For the region as a whole, temperatures are running 1-2 degrees above normal and precipitation, 1-2 inches above normal. However, the final average temperature for the month is likely to rise since the current above normal…
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The National Hurricane Center reported today that a tropical disturbance off the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico is 80 percent likely to become a tropical depression in the next few days. This area, currently called Investigation 91L, is expect to strengthen over the warm Gulf of Mexico and could develop into a tropical depression and perhaps…
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In this series of blog postings I’ve highlighted some of the different places you can get weather and climate data in the Southeast. Today I highlight FAWN, the Florida Automated Weather Network. FAWN’s home site is https://fawn.ifas.ufl.edu/ at the University of Florida. FAWN is a network of over 40 stations scattered across Florida which collect current…
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The National Drought Monitor collects and disseminates drought information for the United States each Thursday morning after seeking input from climatologists and other stakeholders around the country. One of the products they provide is a map of changes in drought status for the US. The map below shows the change in drought status for the…
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In this series of postings I have introduced you to a number of people and groups working on providing climate data and information to Extension agents, agricultural producers and others who need access to trustworthy weather and climate information. Today I am pleased to profile the USDA’s Southeast Regional Climate Hub, located in Raleigh, NC. …
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