Sources of weather and climate data
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If you live near the coast in the Southeast, you are no doubt aware that storm surges associated with land-falling hurricanes can cause tremendous devastation. Storm surges from Ivan and Katrina caused tremendous damage to coastal areas. At the same time coastlines are being developed at a rapid rate, putting more people in harm’s way…
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Now that it is fall, you may start getting requests for information on how the leaves change color and where the colors are brightest. The Southeast Regional Climate Center has put together a nice page which lists a number of resources for regional and national color information. You can visit the page at https://www.sercc.com/foliage.
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I am giving an online class on sources of weather and climate data for extension training this week. In preparation for this class, I have collected a list of sources of data that might be useful to all of you. I am providing it here for those of you who are not attending the webinar.…
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The National Weather Service has a product available on the web pages for their forecast offices that may be of some use for planning purposes up to five days ahead. It is called the “Graphical Forecast’ and an image of the interactive map is below. By moving your mouse over the different boxes in the…
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Previous blog postings have provided links to quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) maps from the Climate Prediction Center. Here is another source that is geared towards the Southeast from the NWS Southeast River Forecast Center (https://www.srh.noaa.gov/serfc/?n=qpfpage). Note that the SERFC maps only cover the next 48 hours in 6-hour increments so they are more suitable for…
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Currently there are two active areas of investigation out in the Atlantic Ocean. Investigation 91 is far out in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the predicted movement of this system will keep it well away from the Southeast. Investigation 92 is east of the Florida coast and is expected to move westward over time, possibly…
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The evaporative stress index is a way of measuring rates of evapotranspiration from plants and the ground using satellite data. The higher the rates of water use, the more negative the evaporative stress index. The two maps below show the maps for September 2 and September 8. You can see that on September 2,…