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If you missed the drought update webinar that I participated in last week Thursday, you can now view it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbtUao3fzTE. It contains an update on drought conditions, water resources, and agriculture across the Southeast.
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A blast of Arctic air is expected to move into Georgia on Tuesday, November 11, bringing rain and gusty winds through the state over the day. Once the cold front passes, frigid air is expected to drop temperatures below freezing in most of the state except the far southern counties and the coastal areas on…
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One of the comments I get about climate modeling from people who don’t know much about them is how can we predict the climate 100 years from now when we can’t even get the weather right two weeks from now. Really, climate and weather models are built quite differently and while there are some similarities,…
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Even though I spend most of my time either managing the UGA weather network or working as an agricultural climatologist, my degree is in meteorology and I am a Certified Consulting Meteorologist. As a meteorologist, I get asked lots of questions about things like forecasts and climate change that occur quite frequently, even though they…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the next three days should be mostly dry, with a small chance of light showers by mid-week (along with a blast of cold air) and the highest likelihood of rain in the Thursday through Saturday period, with many areas expected to receive a half-inch or more. The heaviest…
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Here’s a summary of the 2019 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean showing some of the unusual facts about this year’s season, including two category-5 storms, the strongest storm on record to hit the Bahamas (Dorian), the lack of activity in the Gulf of Mexico, and the fact that seven of the 17 named storms…
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A story in Yahoo News this week noted that a group of international scientists have recently announced a new method of predicting the occurrence of an El Niño in 2020, farther out that has ever been predicted before. Their method, using a computer model which looks at changing temperature patterns over the Pacific Ocean, gives…