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The single most important atmospheric oscillation that affects the climate in the Southeast is the El Nino-Southern Oscillation. You can refresh your memory of what an El Nino is by clicking here. NOAA’s climate blog has a new entry that explains why the El Nino forecast this year appeared to fail (or “bust” as meteorologists…
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The Southeast continues to lie under a mass of frigid air that came over the pole from Siberia, as I discussed in my post yesterday. This morning many record low temperatures were set, including a new record low for Key West, FL of 50 degrees. Fortunately, the winds were a bit lighter today so it…
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Do you have a need for chill hour measurements? There are a couple of online sources that you can use to calculate chill hours for your location. AgroClimate has a great graphic package that allows you to pick between two chill hour models. You can find it at https://agroclimate.org/tools/Chill-Hours-Calculator/. If you are in Georgia, the…
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NOAA has released its global climate summary for January 2015 today. You can read the full analysis at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/1. The latest summary shows that for the Earth as a whole, the average temperature was the second warmest since records began in 1880. However, the distribution of temperatures was varied as usual. The map below shows the…
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As expected, the frigid air has arrived in the Southeast, and near-record setting temperatures were experienced across a lot of the area this morning. The map from CRONOS from the North Carolina State Climatology Office at 8 am below shows the extent of the cold air. Today the maximum high temperature in many areas will…
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Researchers at the University of Georgia are working to develop an early warning system for bright green toxic algal blooms in Georgia lakes using social media platforms and cloud computing to crowdsource instances where further monitoring may be necessary. The project—known as CyanoTRACKER—will use Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to help identify localized blooms at lakes…
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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…