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Hurricane Zeta formed today and is headed towards the Yucatan peninsula, where it is expected to make landfall south of Cancun before moving NE into the Gulf of Mexico. It will move north and then northeast as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Wednesday afternoon. It is not clear if it will be a…
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As expected, Tropical Storm Zeta was named today and is expected to make landfall as a hurricane on Wednesday along the Louisiana coast. So far this time it looks like eastern LA is more likely to be hit, but there is still some time for things to change. The storm is then expected to pass…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that this coming week will be quite a bit rainier than the last couple due to the passage of what is likely to be Tropical Storm Zeta (now tropical depression 28) mid-week. The heaviest rain from Zeta should fall in parts of Alabama and Georgia Tuesday night through Thursday…
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The next webinar to be offered by the Georgia Climate Project is coming up on Wednesday, October 28, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET. You can find more information below. To register, visit https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aM8nsHoTRTuuay1UqDBJZQ.
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In the latest paleoclimate research published this week, climate scientists have been able to use a new source of proxy data to lengthen the known length of the Atlantic sea surface temperature from 100 years to 2,900 years using lake sediments from Sawtooth Lake in the Canadian High Arctic. The research shows that the last…
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There are a lot of different ways to get current weather information. One of the best ways to see weather patterns over space is to use a surface weather map to see what is happening in the atmosphere around you. Outside magazine provides a useful description of surface weather maps and how to read the…
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Are you interested in seeing how climate is changing across the US over time? This came up for discussion on a listserve that I follow today. Here is a good description of an NCEI product that produces maps of trends over time for the lower 48 states: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/duct-tape-and-seesaws-climate-trends-101. You can also go directly to the…