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Brain McCallum of the US Geological Survey published this note in his Facebook stream tonight. This unprecedented deployment of sensors in advance of the storm is going to give a fantastic database in the future to use to study storm surges along the coast. I applaud this effort and the folks that are making it…
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If you’ve ever been asked about how often a certain weather type occurs on a holiday like Christmas, you will love this new feature in the cli-MATE database from the Midwestern Regional Climate center. They now allow you to choose from one of 19 different holidays, including those pesky ones that change date from one…
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Becky Griffin from UGA’s Center for Urban Ag has a new publication out on starting a school garden. You can find it at https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.cfm?number=C1101. It has some great ideas for organizing it! I would add that adding a rain gauge or weather instruments to the garden is a great way to teach the kids about…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that all levels of drought have expanded in the Southeast, but particularly in Georgia. This week has been bone dry in many locations and temperatures, while more mild, are still running above average. I do not expect any rain from Hurricane Matthew in the worst areas, although…
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With apologies to the readers who are not in the Southeast, another Matthew article. This one is from the Capital Weather Gang and lists all of the records that Matthew has broken so far in its life or may be about to break in the next few days. And today (Thursday the 6th) marks…
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Rather than write an update about Matthew myself, I am going to defer to the exhaustive discussion on Matthew provided by Jeff Masters in the Weather Underground blog here. Needless to say, this is probably going to be one of the defining weather moments of 2016 and for some people, for their lifetimes. One of…
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The USDA has issued a press release on Hurricane Matthew and its potential impacts on agriculture in the Southeast as well as resources that might be useful to producers. I have reproduced it below but you can also read it at https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAOC/bulletins/1695705. USDA Prepares for Hurricane Matthew USDA Office of Communications sent this bulletin at 10/05/2016…