If you haven’t been paying attention, you should know that Georgia is in a Supreme Court battle with Florida (and to a lesser extent Alabama) over how water passing through Georgia from the northeast mountains through Atlanta and down into the fertile southwestern part of the state before heading south…
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The latest US climate statistics for October 2019 were released today and show that for the Southeast as a whole, the average temperature was the third warmest on record. Florida was the second warmest ever, especially in the southern part of the peninsula. The precipitation was the 11th wettest, but…
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I don’t listen to many podcasts, but I made an exception for this one. One of my favorite climatologists, Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information, talks to UGA Professor Dr. Marshall Shepherd of the Weather Channel‘s Weather Geeks about the differences between weather and climate, and climate…
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina for October 2019 is now available. You can read it at http://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=303&h=5666e5c1.
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Did you know that the Southeast has two severe weather seasons each year? In addition to the spring severe weather season, we have a second season in late fall when the polar front moves towards the equator as the sun angle decreases. This leads to more dynamic systems that can…
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Last week there were several stories based on a new calculation of the impacts of rising sea levels on cities around the world published in Nature Communications. The new calculation shows that cities are more likely to be inundated by higher sea levels in the future than originally thought because…
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Here is a link to another source of National Weather Service weather data for their cooperative stations and airports. It is based on the XMACIS dataset which has a variety of different access points. This one is quite easy to use and is based on the NWS office areal coverage….
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