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Reports of damage from the storms of Saturday, April 24, are continuing to come in. In addition to the very heavy rain across the area, numerous reports of damaging hail and strong winds were reported in southern AL and GA and in northern FL, leading to crop damage and outright losses there. I have received…
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One of the projects that Dr. George Vellidis (UGA-Tifton) and I are working on over the next few years was featured this week in the NOAA Weather Program Office newsletter at https://wpo.noaa.gov/Resources/Newsletters. The Project Outcomes will: Assess the viability of low-cost soil moisture sensors via test-bed calibration (AL, GA), expand the egional soil moisture network…
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With the heavy rain this past weekend in southern Georgia along with large hail in some southwestern counties, Georgia farmers are reeling. I have seen a number of pictures showing fields washed out by the rain, causing damage that could take thousands of dollars to repair. I have also heard some reports of hail damage…
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If you like to watch the clouds but don’t know what they are, you might enjoy this 9-minute video from the Cloud Appreciation Society’s founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney. He starts with the lowest cloud types and moves up to the highest clouds. If you want to learn more, you can also visit the Cloud Appreciation Society…
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The heavy rain that fell last weekend in southern Georgia and adjacent areas of AL and SC removed the abnormally dry (D0) conditions in that part of the region. However, the lack of rain in North Carolina expanded the D0 conditions there. Rainfall amounts in the next week should be fairly low in most of…
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The lack of much snow and rain this winter has set up the western US for another year of serious drought. Reservoirs are at very low levels, forcing water managers to make tough decisions about who gets water and who does not, since there is not enough to meet everyone’s needs. This article from the…
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I spend most of my time talking about climate and agriculture, but I want to take just a minute to toot my horn for the Atmospheric Sciences program at the University of Georgia. They are a rapidly growing program in the Department of Geography at UGA and have grown to almost 60 majors in just…