Sources of weather and climate data
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With the heavy rain that is expected for parts of the Southeast this week, you may need to know where to get flood information. The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center is a great source of information on all things related to water and hydrology. Their website is at https://www.srh.noaa.gov/alr. The image below shows…
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Now that March is upon us and the atmospheric pattern has shifted into something that is bringing more spring-like weather to the Southeast, it’s time to think about planting. And that means thinking about the last frost of the winter. AgroClimate has a tool which shows the last frost date by county for the Southeast. …
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This morning NOAA sent out a press release indicating that the long-anticipated El Nino has finally officially arrived. We’ve been flirting with El Nino-like conditions for several months since the first El Nino watch was issued last spring, but until now the conditions haven’t quite come together. Here is a link to the official story.…
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Here’s a preliminary look at winter across the Southeast, courtesy of the High Plains Regional Climate Center. Most of the region experienced below normal temperatures, with the exceptions of a few hot spots along with southern Florida. There was a lot of variation in precipitation across the region, with the wettest areas in southwest Georgia…
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The CoCoRaHS volunteer network of precipitation observers around the US is having a state by state competition to see who can recruit the most new volunteers this month. “CoCoRaHS” stands for Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network and was started in 1997 in Colorado after a big local flood devastated the Colorado State University’s…
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If you did not get the chance to attend my webinar last Friday on the climate of 2014 and the outlook for 2015, the recording is now available on YouTube. You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUPMFITVhG8. A screen capture of the slide which lists my web sources is shown below. The next webinar from the Southern…
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This is the famous quote that opens Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”. In this case it is also a pretty good summary of the divided nature of temperature across the US this winter. The Weather Channel had a story today which described stations that had their record warmest winter ever, including a number…