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If you have ever considered getting your own home weather station, Popular Mechanics has provided a review of the eight best home weather stations in a recent article at https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/lawn-garden/a35098351/best-home-weather-stations/. This might be helpful if you are trying to wade through a list of potential set-ups and don’t know where to start. You can also…
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You might not know it, but the Athens area in Georgia is located in a radar “hole” where the radar beam from the NOAA radar at Peachtree City is so high off the ground that it misses a lot of low-lying precipitation as well as storm structure that could be important for monitoring severe weather…
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The recent snowfall in southern Georgia and nearby regions brought a lot of moisture and cold temperatures to the citrus groves that are growing around that part of the state. Lindy Savelle, the executive director of the Georgia Citrus Association, suggests that now would be a good time to treat the snow-affected trees with fungicide…
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I hear some stories about how changes in the weather can affect people’s physical health, with creaky knees or swollen sinuses occurring with some types of weather. Here is a recent story from EuroNews about how weather may affect young people’s mental health. Researchers led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) found that…
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Meteorologists like to describe weather in terms of how hot, dry, wet, or cold things have been. A newer measure of the impacts of winter weather on humans is the Winter Misery Index, known more completely as the Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index (AWSSI). It is mapped by the Midwestern Regional Climate Center and posted on their…
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I’ve gotten some questions about how the snowstorm along the Gulf Coast this past week has compared to previous storms, especially the large snow event of 1895. This post in The Eyewall provides some great historical context and visuals from previous snowstorms and compares them to the event that just happened. Some parts of the…
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Rapid-onset drought, also known as “flash” drought, is something that plagues the Southeast periodically. It usually happens during the growing season where it can have a great impact on crops and pastures. Flash drought can be caused by a protracted dry spell at a time when crops need 1 to 1.5 inches of water a…