Sources of weather and climate data
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Last week I talked about mesonets in general and listed several around the Southeast. Today I am going to focus on the Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network (GAEMN). You can find them at https://www.georgiaweather.net. This is a network of 81 automated stations around Georgia run by the University of Georgia which collect weather data at…
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The National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly known as the National Climate Data Center) announced a new blog this week which will feature in-depth discussions of current and past climate. They will look at trends in climate over time, compare current to past events, and more generally discuss how climate data are collected and used…
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The latest National Drought Monitor was issued this morning and shows that abnormally dry conditions expanded from 20 to 34 percent of the region, mostly in the western Carolinas and Virginia. Dry conditions decreased in Alabama, but moderate drought reappeared in south-central Georgia, which has missed most of the rain this past month. Updated drought…
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In addition to the network of weather stations run and maintained by the National Weather Service, there are a number of other public and private weather networks that collect weather and climate information. These networks are called “mesonetworks” or “mesonets” because they cover a smaller region that then NWS network. They also use different instrumentation…
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The satellite picture this morning showed the Southeast in all its glory, unmasked by clouds. This image, taken from the GOES-East geostationary satellite, is so crisp that you can see river valleys and even the “fall line” cutting through central Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. The clear conditions are courtesy of high pressure, which…
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AgroClimate is a web site developed by scientists associated with the Southeast Climate Consortium. It contains climatological information for stations around the Southeast based on NWS cooperative observers as well as some mesonetworks like Florida’s FAWN. I’ll talk more about mesonetworks next week. One of the most useful things about AgroClimate is its ability to…
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The Southern Regional Climate Center (based in Louisiana) announced a new Climate Extremes Portal today. It is available at https://extremes.srcc.lsu.edu/. This map-based product provides extremes of temperature and precipitation for each station across the country (not just the South). An example of the display for May 13’s record high maximum temperature is shown below. Note that…
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