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Some NWS offices are holding Lightning Safety Awareness activities this week, and I thought it was a good reminder to all of us who spend time outside in the summer. The NWS Summer Safety Awareness resources pages can be found at https://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/weatherreadynation/summer_safety.html#.VYlHfflVhBc. Lightning myths and facts https://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/myths.shtml Understanding lightning https://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/science/scienceintro.htm And finally, I am happy to hear that…
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A friend of mine pointed out this interesting new web site from ESRI called Hydro Hierarchy. The web site allows you to look at the relationship between rivers and their drainage patterns across the US. A bar plot on the lower left shows the 2014 streamflow values. The radial graph on the top left shows…
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The latest blog posting from SIFT (“Southeast Innovative Farming Team”) is out and features an article by David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, on the recent weather conditions in the region. Looks like more hot and dry weather for the Southeast! You can read his update at https://www.siftag.org/southeast-drying-out-more-hot-and-dry-weather-on-the-way/.
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Growing Georgia published an article last week noting that the yield of Vidalia onions this year was lower than normal due to wet conditions in April as well as temperatures as low as 15 degrees and high winds and hail which also damaged the onions. The hail caused enough damage that some farmers did not…
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If you are an astronomer, today marks the official start of astronomical summer (for climatologists, it started on June 1). The sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky at 12:39 PM EDT. You can read about the solstice at https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/june-solstice.html. EarthSky also has a nice gallery of photos taken at Stonehenge in England, where the…
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The NC CRONOS/ECONet Database, developed by the State Climate Office of North Carolina, enables the public to quickly and easily retrieve archived observations from 35,433 (13,127 active) weather sites and 14,502 water sites in and around North Carolina. CRONOS stands for Climate Retrieval and Observations Network of the Southeast database, and there are many additional…
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Problems with the ocean near the US coasts have been linked to the unusual climate we have seen lately across the country. Here are some stories that show different climate impacts on the sea. ThinkProgress posted a story on Thursday about the huge toxic algal bloom that has forced the shut-down of fisheries along the West…