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A new data visualization tool called PolarGlobe has been made available by scientists at Arizona State University. While it focuses on information from polar regions, it has global atmospheric circulation and also some ocean circulation information at multiple levels. I haven’t had the chance to play with it much yet, but it looks like it…
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Here is a link to a really cool time lapse video of waves in a new snow pack in New York. The mechanism is similar to the movement of sand dunes over a desert floor over time, but it is the first time I have seen it with snow. I’ve heard that the official term…
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The Tallahassee Democrat published an interesting opinion piece by an organic blueberry farmer thls week. It discusses recent weather impacts on his crops in the past few years and what it says about the trends in the climate. He also talks about what he is doing to respond to these trends. You can read it…
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We are winding down our look at the Georgia Climate Project’s Roadmap of 40 questions that need to be addressed in future research about how Georgia’s changing climate will affect agriculture, ecology, water, transportation, and other parts of society. This week’s question addresses the need for appropriate measurements and associated data sets that scientists can…
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Did you know that there will be a total lunar eclipse on the night of January 20-21? Even though it is cloudy now, it should clear up on Sunday in time for most of the Southeast to view it. While a lunar eclipse is not as dramatic as a solar eclipse, it can also be…
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As a meteorologist, I have many friends who work as forecasters or in other jobs for the National Weather Service or its home agency, NOAA. It’s been a busy week for these folks, and they do it carefully and at all hours of the day and night to keep us safe. This in spite of…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that heavy rain should occur across most of the region this week with two major storms moving through the area. On Saturday the first storm plows through, bringing a lot of rain with some wind and potentially even some severe weather to parts of the Southeast. Dry conditions should…
Posted in: Climate outlooks