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NOAA has a web page available which contains a variety of resources on spring safety. You can access it at https://www.weather.gov/wrn/spring-safety. It includes information on preparing a spring emergency kit, high surf, lightning safety, and other related topics.
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has issued their latest monthly climate summary for February 2017. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=227&h=5666e5c1.
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From Jared Rackley, former UGA graduate student and now working for the NWS in Louisiana: Still think the Farmers’ Almanac is reliable? How did that “Penetrating Cold and Very Wet” winter work out for you? As March begins, meteorological winter (Dec.-Feb.) comes to an end. This winter was not only unseasonably warm across much of…
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March 1 marks the beginning of spring for climatologists–if you’re an astronomer, you will have to wait until later this month. Dr. Marshall Shepherd describes why we use March 1 as the start of spring in his Forbes.com blog here. Wednesday will feel like spring across the Southeast, including a chance for severe weather, so…
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The WunderBlog has an excellent retrospective of the last several years of the drought in California and how the last very wet season has knocked out the drought in a lot of the state. But they do note that even with all of the rain, it will take a long time for the aquifers to…
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ScienceAlert.com posted an article this week on a huge crater that has formed in the Siberian permafrost region since the 1960s and is rapidly growing. As it does, it has revealed ancient forests, carcasses of mammoths and ancient horses, and what could be 200,000 years of climate records. The records come in the form of…
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I noticed when I drove home from work in Watkinsville GA today (just outside Athens) that the peach orchard on the university farm is in bloom (and no, this picture is not from Watkinsville-we’re a lot flatter). This is about a month earlier than usual, which is consistent with observations I’ve previously mentioned from the…