Sources of weather and climate data
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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…
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The Florida Climate Institute has put together an excellent list of FAQs on climate variability, climate change and their impacts on Florida. Many of these FAQs apply broadly across the Southeast, and address El Nino, hurricanes, changing sea level, and the vulnerability of infrastructure. You can find the list at https://floridaclimateinstitute.org/resources/faqs.
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The Climate Prediction Center website shows that for the next two weeks, much of the eastern US is going to be much colder than usual, and the Southeast is likely to be wetter than normal. You can find these prediction maps at www.cpc.noaa.gov. The wet and cool conditions should help to alleviate the short-term dryness…
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The National Climatic Data Center, located in Asheville NC, provides a wealth of weather and climate data as well as summaries of climate at a variety of time and space scales. The “State of the Climate” page provides links to a number of monthly climate summaries which describe conditions in other areas of the world,…
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Have you ever wondered what is the average hottest day of the year? Turns out it depends on where in the Southeast you live. This map from the National Climatic Data Center shows that people in Georgia experience their hottest day in mid-July while folks in southern Florida and in northwest Alabama experience it several…