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As a former State Climatologist of Wisconsin and assistant SC of Georgia, I am very proud of all our state climatologists around the country and the work that they do to monitor historical climate and educate their citizens about weather and climate variability at all time scales. NOAA has just produced an excellent video which…
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Vox.com had an interesting article this week which discussed the history of the Fahrenheit and Centigrade temperature scales and why the US is the only major country that still uses the Fahrenheit scale. You might enjoy reading about the controversy here. Marshall Shepherd, UGA Geography professor, posted a blog article this morning discussing the topic and…
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The Georgia State Climatologist, Bill Murphey, has let me know that their office has a new website address. You can find them at https://epd.georgia.gov/office-state-climatologist.
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There is a new “experimental” product available from the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) of NOAA which provides analog values of precipitation amounts for time periods from the present to ten days out. The product is available at https://esrl.noaa.gov/psd/forecasts/reforecast2/analogs/index.html. These maps use a new set of analog comparisons to predict rainfall across the US. The maps…
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Meteorologists are anxiously watching the latest blast from the Arctic, which is expected to move into the Southeast after a cold frontal passage on Wednesday. Predicted temperatures on Thursday show that it is likely that many areas of the Southeast will experience record low high temperatures and some record lows may also fall. A nice…
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With all the news stories about Boston’s incredible snowfall and the frigid conditions in the Northeast, you’d think that the US is having a much colder than normal winter. But USA Today points out that while the Northeast is having one of its snowiest and chilliest winters on record, out west they are basking under…
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The storm that will be moving into the Southeast over the next few hours has been watched closely by meteorologists for potential impacts that could negatively affect folks here in the Southeast. Early models indicated that there was a possibility for snow which excited a lot of my friends here in the South. Yesterday, new…
Posted in: Climate outlooks