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The Georgia Farm Monitor published a YouTube video news story this week about corn planting in North Georgia, which is finishing up now. The link to the YouTube video is here. The story featured an award-winning farmer in Dawson County north of Atlanta, who won an award in 1973 for the first farmer in Georgia…
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Scientific American posted a story this month describing a new study by researchers at Harvard and Macquarie University in Australia on the onset of fall colors in trees. Surprisingly, they linked the onset of fall colors to the onset of spring, showing that when trees experience an earlier spring, the tree also changes color earlier…
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EarthSky published an infographic earlier in May which describes the hottest and coldest temperatures on Earth. You can find it here. The hottest place in the US? Death Valley CA, with a record high temperature of 134.1 F. I was disappointed to see that they did not list the coldest record for the US though.…
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In addition to the network of weather stations run and maintained by the National Weather Service, there are a number of other public and private weather networks that collect weather and climate information. These networks are called “mesonetworks” or “mesonets” because they cover a smaller region that then NWS network. They also use different instrumentation…
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The 7-day QPF predicts that most of the Southeast will get less than an inch of rain in the coming week. The exception is the western part of the region, including Alabama, northern Georgia and the western Carolinas, where well over an inch is possible. After a great start to the Memorial Day weekend, rain…
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The official start to the Atlantic hurricane season is June 1. As we saw this year with Tropical Storm Ana, sometimes the storms come even before the official season begins. In preparation for June 1, the National Weather Service is holding Hurricane Preparedness Week May 24-30. You can read about it at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/. The week will…
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The satellite picture this morning showed the Southeast in all its glory, unmasked by clouds. This image, taken from the GOES-East geostationary satellite, is so crisp that you can see river valleys and even the “fall line” cutting through central Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. The clear conditions are courtesy of high pressure, which…