I am happy to announce the birth of a new website for the University of Georgia automated weather station network. You can still find the main portal at http://www.georgiaweather.net/, although that may change in the future. The website has a fresh new look and more readily available information. I encourage you…
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Growing Georgia reprinted a story by Merritt Melancon of UGA on the recent string of very hot days here in Athens and other parts of Georgia yesterday. You can read it here. Another story about the hot weather appeared this morning in OnlineAthens.com here. Both of them use information I…
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The US Climate Resilience Toolkit has a website that allows you to look at past and projected future climate trends for different climate scenarios. They introduced it at a media event this week. You can visit it at http://toolkit.climate.gov/climate-explorer2/. I am still learning how it works, but there seems to be…
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Today is a transition day for Dr. Ryan Boyles, the North Carolina State Climatologist who has been one of the most active state climatologists in the country and who was featured on this blog in July 2015. Ryan is moving to the Department of the Interior’s Southeast Climate Science Center…
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Flood that occurred in Asheville, NC, washing away hundreds of homes and businesses along the French Broad River. It was a major catastrophe for the city, which did not feel the heaviest rainfall but felt the biggest impacts from the rainfall upstream….
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I’m taking a break from the blog for ten days while I attend a conference on high impact weather and climate and celebrate my my 25th wedding anniversary with my husband John Knox and friends. While I’m gone, you can find a list of web sites that you can use to…
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The US Climate Resilience Toolkit has a useful tool looking at vegetation health. It is called VegScape and it looks at the condition of vegetation across the US on a zoomable map derived from satellite data. You can read about it and find a link to the tool at http://toolkit.climate.gov/tool/vegscape%E2%80%94vegetation-condition-explorer….
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