• 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 any time soon. Check it…

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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 out. The last remaining one…

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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 that? MSN posted an article…

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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 how well or poorly they…

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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.   ——————————————————————————————————————- The process of creating…

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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 jumped from 5 to 53…

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  • After last year’s devastating impacts of Hurricane Michael on the Georgia cotton crop, extension specialists and producers are trying to find ways to avoid a repeat of that huge loss by considering how to plant and manage the crops. The Southeast Farm Press posted a couple of articles recently describing some of the recommendations that…

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