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As I was driving in to work this morning, I noticed a few snowflakes drifting through the air. Some of you in Atlanta and north Georgia may have seen a few more. When I got to work, I found this video on falling snow taken from a high-speed camera in my inbox from EarthSky. The…
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This morning NOAA sent out a press release indicating that the long-anticipated El Nino has finally officially arrived. We’ve been flirting with El Nino-like conditions for several months since the first El Nino watch was issued last spring, but until now the conditions haven’t quite come together. Here is a link to the official story.…
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Here’s a preliminary look at winter across the Southeast, courtesy of the High Plains Regional Climate Center. Most of the region experienced below normal temperatures, with the exceptions of a few hot spots along with southern Florida. There was a lot of variation in precipitation across the region, with the wettest areas in southwest Georgia…
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Two stories in the news this week highlighted farmers who are successfully growing crops in tough climate conditions. An National Public Radio story last week showcased an Alaska farmer who is farming in the tundra near the town of Bethel. According to the story, last year he produced 50,000 pounds of potatoes, beets, carrots and…
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The Florida climate summary for February 2015 is now available at the website for the Florida Climate Center. You can see it at by clicking here.
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The CoCoRaHS volunteer network of precipitation observers around the US is having a state by state competition to see who can recruit the most new volunteers this month. “CoCoRaHS” stands for Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network and was started in 1997 in Colorado after a big local flood devastated the Colorado State University’s…
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If you did not get the chance to attend my webinar last Friday on the climate of 2014 and the outlook for 2015, the recording is now available on YouTube. You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUPMFITVhG8. A screen capture of the slide which lists my web sources is shown below. The next webinar from the Southern…