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I want to take a minute to recognize Jordan McLeod, former University of Georgia graduate student, as the winner of the 2014-2015 WxChallenge, a yearly national collegiate weather forecasting competition. You can read the UGA press release here. Jordan is now a climatologist with the Southeast Regional Climate Center in Chapel Hill, NC, a great source…
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The latest Drought Monitor was released this morning. It shows that moderate drought expanded in the region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida due to the hot and dry weather we have experienced this week. You can see more at https://www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu/.
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NOAA has released their latest climate report for the global climate. In the report, available at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201505, they note that May 2015, March-May 2015, and the year to date January through May 2015 were all the warmest on record since records began in 1880. Precipitation amounts varied tremendously from on location to another this month.
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NOAA has announced their weather photography contest winners for this year. You can view them at https://www.weather.gov/photocontest/.
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In yesterday’s post I pointed to a composite map from Florida State Climatologist David Zierden showing that on the average, May and June in strong El Nino years are wet and July and August are dry. This year, the wet conditions have certainly occurred in Texas and Oklahoma, but not in the Southeast, as…
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The Weather Channel has an interesting series of photos which show some of the strange things that have shown up on NWS radar since the Doppler radar went live in the mid-1990s. You can see them by clicking here. When I lived in Wisconsin, the NWS folk at NWS Sullivan told me they could see…
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Recent weather events have caused a number of impacts on livestock in the Southeast. Here are a couple of recent news stories about some of the impacts. Earlier this week National Public Radio ran a story about the effects of both drought and flood on Texas cattle ranchers. The whipsaw from drought to the recently…