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Weather Underground reported today that the death toll from this week’s tornado outbreak (19 so far) was the highest for January since 1969 and has already surpassed the total number of deaths for the entire year of 2016 across the US. Since peak tornado season is still a couple of months away, that toll is…
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The Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project, better known as PINEMAP, began in 2012 when Tim Martin, professor of tree physiology at the University of Florida, along with representatives from 11 southeastern land-grant universities and a host of other research cooperatives, proposed a five-year research project to determine how changes to climate could…
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The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences announced the development of a new app-based tool to help tell farmers when severe weather might impact their crops. According to an article in the Southeast Farm Press, the tool will inform farmers about the potential for extreme weather such as severe heat or dry spells…
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When farmers are looking for feed for their cattle due to drought or other shortages, they use a variety of products to supplement their feed. I was interested to read this story about a spilled truck full of red Skittles that was on its way to be ground up and used as a cattle feed…
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GOES 16, formerly known as GOES R, has sent its first pictures back from space, and they are great! This is the first in a series of new and better geostationary satellites that will be helping NOAA to monitor and predict weather, including severe weather outbreaks. You can see the pictures and read more about…
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A very tight low pressure center is located in the far northwest corner of Georgia tonight. The pressure of the storm in the center near Dalton GA was 981.2 millibars or 28.97 inches of mercury. This would be one of the lowest pressures ever reported in a non-tropical storm in Georgia and may set the…
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My heart goes out to the folks around the Southeast that have been hit by severe weather the past few days and the families that have lost loved ones. While the threat of the worst weather is mostly over, sooner or later another round will come. Here is an article from US Tornadoes which describes…