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If you like to look at weather maps, radar, satellite pictures, and text forecasts and spend too much time going from one web site to another, this might be the solution for you. DaculaWeather’s website contains multiple pages of radar, satellite pictures, observations, forecasts from a variety of models, forecast text products from National Weather…
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Bloomburg Businessweek published a map this week that caught my attention. It shows the results of a recent research project by German scientists which predict changes in suitability for agriculture in the period 2071-2100 compared to the present under modeled changes in climate. The map shows that the Southeast is an area which is predicted…
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The 7-day QPF shows a large area of rain across the Southeast for the next week, with amounts greater than 3 inches in north Georgia and along the coasts. A low pressure center is expected to develop in the Gulf and track along the East Coast, bringing rain to much of the area. The heaviest…
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Science News reported this week that scientists from Princeton University predicted that fall foliage changes in future years may be delayed by several weeks and the color season may lengthen if current temperature trends continue. Leaves change color in response to a number of factors, including temperatures, precipitation and day length. Impacts are expected to…
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We often talk about negative impacts of drought, but for some people it has positive impacts as well. For construction companies and golf courses, dry conditions mean more days to get work and play done, increasing income. In agriculture, a story this week in Growing Georgia highlights one benefit that the recent dry conditions have…
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Two stories this week discussed long-term drought issues in different parts of the world. Bloomberg reported that California and the rest of the West is watching this coming winter anxiously. Communities in the West depend on winter snowfall to provide them with up to 90 percent of their water for the summer dry season. The…
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In a previous post I discussed the “wedge,” a weather phenomenon that brings cool air down the east side of the Appalachian Mountains into the Southeast. Officially, it is called a cold air damming event, since the mountains prevent the movement of cool dense air into the mountains but direct it along the eastern slopes. …
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