Sources of weather and climate data
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If you are interested in learning more about agricultural meteorology, you may be interested in joining this one-hour webinar offered by the CoCoRaHS folks. It is going to be held online on February 26 at 2 pm Eastern Time. You can register at https://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk. You don’t have to be a CoCoRaHS observer to register. It will…
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The preliminary summary for climate conditions in the Southeast for January is in, and shows that for most of the region, temperatures were cooler than normal and precipitation less than normal. For precipitation, the exception was eastern North Carolina, which was impacted by the coastal storms which developed in the Atlantic and tracked up the…
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A new GIS-based data viewer for normals is now available from the National Climatic Data Center. You can visit it at https://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/map/viewer/#app=clim&cfg=cdo&theme=normals&layers=01&node=gis&extent=-149.3:20.2:-60.1:69.6&custom=normals The viewer allows you to choose a variety of normals options for National Weather Service cooperative stations around the country. A screen shot is shown below.
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Winston Eason of Clayton County wrote me this morning asking about finding maps for average chill hours for a class he is teaching on backyard fruit trees and orchards. So far I have not been successful in finding a Georgia-specific map on average chill hours, but I did run across several other sources of information…
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I’m pleased to announce that there is a new web site for Georgia Climate available at https://www.gaclimate.org. When you visit, you will notice that this blog has a prominent place on the top of the home page. Inside the web site you will find a variety of information on Georgia climate and a number of…
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The latest seasonal forecasts were released by the Climate Prediction Center this week and show little indication of what our next three months could be like. With the chances for an El Nino rapidly waning, there is nothing in the atmospheric pattern to suggest whether our temperature and precipitation will be near, above or below…
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NOAA’s Climate.gov web site now has a good list of answers to frequently asked questions about global warming and climate change. You can find it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/global-warming-frequently-asked-questions.