The Southeast Regional Climate Center posted a direct link today to a NWS web site which provides easy access to some of their products, including some graphing capability. The direct link is https://www.sercc.com/nowdatamap and the product is called NOWData for NOAA Online Weather Data. An example of the kind of…
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Yesterday’s USDA blog “Farmers go digital to confront changing growing conditions” highlights agricultural tools developed for the Midwest by the U2U group (“Useful to Usable”) at Purdue University and affiliated universities which show variations in climate patterns by El Nino phase and how they affect yields and other agricultural variables. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The evaporative stress index is a way of measuring rates of evapotranspiration from plants and the ground using satellite data. The higher the rates of water use, the more negative the evaporative stress index. The two maps below show the maps for September 2 and September 8. You can…
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Two new interactive viewers from NOAA’s Coastal Services Center are available online and provide a detailed look at coastal areas across the US. The C-CAP viewer allows you to look at changes in land use from 1996 to 2010 in many areas of the Southeast, although only counties relatively near…
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