Sources of weather and climate data
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This week starts with below normal rainfall in most of the Southeast. Rainfall should be less than 0.75 inches over the next five days across most of the Southeast except near the coast. Showers will be scattered but could be heavy if you happen to get caught in one. Rain chances increase later in the…
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Here is a neat tool for looking at historical tornado tracks across the country. It is run by the Midwestern Climate Center using the official Storm Prediction Center database and mapped onto an interactive map. You can zoom into your county and filter by date and Fujita scale of tornado. It defaults to F3 and…
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The National Weather Service office in Peachtree City GA announced that today is National Heatstroke Prevention Day. Heat is one of the leading killers due to weather across the nation, resulting in hundreds of fatalities each year. Since farmers and extension agents spend a lot of time outdoors in sultry summer conditions, it is important…
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Have you enjoyed the cool and pretty weather we’ve been having this week? A number of stations even set record low temperatures this morning, including Atlanta, Columbus and Macon. Athens tied their record low of 60F today–the old record was set back in 1925. It even made it down into the 40s in the northeast…
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The USDA has a nice website for daily forecasts for cattle heat stress at https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/clay-center-ne/marc/docs/heat-stress/main/. If you click on your regional link you get a day by day forecast of heat stress for the next seven days. You can also find out more information on the AnimalAgClimateChange website here.
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The Midwestern Climate Center has made an easy-to-use portal to National Weather Service cooperative weather data archives on their website, called cli-MATE. Even though they are located in Champaign IL and cover the Midwestern states, the database contains information for locations across the US. The system is free to use but you need to create…
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The National Hurricane Center has started putting out advisories on Tropical Depression 2, located in the tropical Atlantic. There is enough convective activity associated with the circulation to identify it as a closed circulation, which gives it depression status. In the short term, TD2 may strengthen slightly and could even gain named status in the…