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I’m taking a break from the blog for ten days while I attend a conference on high impact weather and climate and celebrate my my 25th wedding anniversary with my husband John Knox and friends. While I’m gone, you can find a list of web sites that you can use to find your own weather and…
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I got a great question from Laura Griffeth, county extension agent for Webster County, Georgia, about a graph I showed in a post a while back on changes in summer temperature over time. Her question was “What happened in Georgia in the late 1960s for Georgia’s average temperature to be so low compared to other…
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So far 2016 is shaping up to be a bad year for wildfires across the US, especially in the West. This brings special problems for people who maintain livestock outside where they may be affected by the blazes. Growing Georgia posted a story this week about some of the challenges that ranchers face in helping…
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July 4 marked the day when the earth was the farthest from the sun in its orbit around our favorite star (we call that aphelion). In spite of what you might think, the seasonal swings in temperature are not controlled by our distance from the sun but by the tilt of the earth towards or…
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Georgia was well above normal in temperature in June, ranging from one to almost four degrees above the 1981-2010 average. The hottest areas were in the northern part of the state. Rainfall was less than normal in many areas, causing an expansion of drought over the month and the introduction of extreme drought to two…
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190 years ago today, at a little after Noon, Thomas Jefferson died at Monticello, as Americans celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Later that evening, during a Boston summer thunderstorm, John Adams said his last words and died. They were “Jefferson survives”. He was wrong, because he outlived him by ten hours.…
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It’s time to celebrate America’s 240th year of independence! Hope you have a restful and refreshing day with family and friends.
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