Sources of weather and climate data
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center posted a note on Facebook today saying that they had received many inquiries this month about the number of rainy days in September. They posted a couple of maps which show the number of days with precipitation of at least 0.01 inches and the ranking of the count for each…
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If you like to look at weather maps, radar, satellite pictures, and text forecasts and spend too much time going from one web site to another, this might be the solution for you. DaculaWeather’s website contains multiple pages of radar, satellite pictures, observations, forecasts from a variety of models, forecast text products from National Weather…
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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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