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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released their monthly summary for April 2017 this morning. It shows that NC had the warmest April and the second wettest April on record! You can read all about it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=233&h=5666e5c1.
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April is winding down, and while the final results are not yet in, it looks like the month as a whole will be well above normal across the Southeast. This means that for every month from February 2016 on, we have been above the 1981-2010 normals in temperature. At the same time, precipitation was above…
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Here are a couple of resources I have seen recently that could be good for teachers or extension agents. Web Weather for Kids is a web site with information on basic weather produced by the University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). It contains information on various types of severe weather and helps kids to understand…
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One of the earliest tornado videos on record was this short video clip from the deadly Warner Robins GA storm on April 30, 1953. According to This Date in Weather History on Facebook, “An F4 tornado with winds over 200 mph hit the Warner Robins, Georgia, and portions of Robins Air Force Base, killing 18…
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This week the EPA removed many of their climate resources from their web page, including several that I have mentioned in this blog, such as the report on climate change indicators in the Southeast. Fortunately, a number of different groups have mirrored these sites, figuring that they would be taken down. So if you are…
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The 7-day QPF map shows that parts of the Southeast are expected to get several more inches of rain this week as a weather system stalls to our west. Mountainous areas and most of Alabama will receive the most rain. The driest area this week will be the Florida peninsula, which will struggle to receive…
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GeoAwesomeness.com posted a story about a new source of satellite data on land cover to its web site this week. It is a viewer which allows you to look at several different land cover satellites, including LandSat and MODIS and search for local coverage very quickly. I have just tried it out for a few…