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Do you know who to call in your state in case of extreme weather emergency? NOAA has compiled handy lists of phone numbers and contact information for each state (and some smaller regions). You can find links to all of them at https://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/activities/weather-ready-nation/newis/. Thank you, NOAA!
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has a blog on a variety of topics related to climate in the Southeast. Today’s entry describes some research that their students are doing on the measurement of drought. One of the new products under development is a Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) which will include the impacts…
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The National Weather Service provided a one-page summary of PoP (“probability of precipitation”) forecasting today that is a good summary of this statistic. It is important to keep in mind that forecasts are always made for a specific time period and a specific area over which the PoP forecast is valid. “Probability of precipitation” is what…
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Yesterday parts of Georgia experienced flooding rains. They were very localized and many areas received no rain at all. The NWS daily rainfall estimate from https://water.weather.gov/precip shows the spatial variability of rain across the area. You will note two areas of heavy rainfall in red in north-central Georgia centered on Athens-Clarke County and Morgan County…
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Many news sources have been providing stories on the current strong El Nino and its likely impacts on various parts of the world. For example, Discover magazine and many others have compared this El Nino to the record El Nino of 1997-1998, and many scientists feel the current one may end up even stronger than that…
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In the past, I have frequently referred to blog postings on the Weather Underground site, but have not explained much about the site itself. As part of our series on sources of weather and climate data, I would like to introduce you to the rest of the site. It is located at https://www.wunderground.com. Weather Underground…
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Late last month a story made the rounds of national newspapers about predictions of a new Little Ice Age that would hit the world in about 15 years, based on some solar research done by scientists in the United Kingdom. One example of the story from AOL.com is available here and a longer-more detailed story at…