Sources of weather and climate data
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Do you like podcasts? Do you like weather? Then you will want to check out this list of the top 25 podcasts focused on weather and see if any strike your fancy while you are spending hours in the car or in the field. I’ve been a guest on a few of them and listen…
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Here is an interesting resource for farmers who want to learn more about resiliency. This is an online “flipbook” that allows you to read it by electronically flipping pages like a regular book. The book discusses resilient farming, including an overview of climate and weather, a description of different related risks that farmers have, and…
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Today is the first day of the Atlantic Hurricane Season, and we are already active with Investigation 91 just off the east coast of the Yucutan Peninsula. There is a small chance this could become TS Alex in the next day or two before heading over to southern Florida for some wet weather. For those…
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Wednesday, June 1, is the official start of the Atlantic tropical season. And right on cue, a named storm has the potential to develop in the Gulf of Mexico, the prime area for development early in the season. The twist this time is that the energy that could develop is from Hurricane Agatha, which developed…
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I’ve gotten some emails lately asking about how to report dry conditions and drought so that the Drought Monitor authors recognize that things are getting crunchy here in parts of the Southeast. Here is a refresher on what sites you can use to do it: There are a lot of different tools for monitoring drought…
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Inside Climate News published a story about state weather mesonets in February, but I just ran across it this week. Mesonets like the one we have at the University of Georgia provide valuable climate information to farmers and extension agents documenting drought, water stress, freezes, and growing degree days, all of which help farmers monitor…
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The National Weather Service provides a lot of weather and climate observations across the United States and has done so for well over 100 years. But their network is limited in what it measures, focusing mainly on temperature and precipitation, plus wind, humidity, and pressure at airport locations where that information is needed for flight…