With the dry conditions getting worse across Georgia, peanut farmers have been at a loss for what to do with their crops. Do they harvest now in conditions that are not great due to dry, crusty soils or wait for rain to soften up the ground and give the peanuts…
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If you are tired of all the heat and humidity, cool down with this look at the new wind chill climatology for the US from the Midwest Regional Climate Center. I could sure use some cooler conditions today! But maybe not wind chills of below zero, or at least not…
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Did you know that the National Weather Service used to provide weather kiosks in the downtowns of major cities which had Weather Bureau offices? This was to provide local weather information to pedestrians and downtown businesses. But because of their design and their likelihood of being vandalized, they were phased…
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If you have studied the solar system, you probably already know that Venus is the second planet from the sun, and that it is about the same size as Earth but has a much different atmosphere, with a lot more carbon dioxide than Earth has. But was it always like…
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Now that almost everyone (my husband excluded) has a smartphone in their pocket or purse, many of us use weather apps to get daily forecasts as well as severe weather notices. But how good are they really? My friend Don Paul in Buffalo, NY, has a new blog post on…
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If you have ever wondered about who makes the weekly Drought Monitor map and how it started, you may be interested in reading this story below on the history of the DM. Here is the first drought map put out by the DM in January 2000 and today’s map. …
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It is no surprise to anyone who needs rain that drought is expanding across the Southeast, and the latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that expansion in a big way. For the region as a whole, almost 39 percent is now classified as moderate drought (D1) or worse. Virginia…
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