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The University of Georgia has just announced a new major in atmospheric sciences (also known as meteorology) starting this spring. Previously they offered an atmospheric sciences certificate within the Geography Department. They join several other schools around the Southeast with degrees in weather and climate studies. You can find a complete list of schools with…
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Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources Coastal Division is hosting a workshop November 2-3 on Jekyll Island GA. The conference web site is at https://coastalgadnr.org/ClimateConference. Here is some information about the conference from their web site. I’ll be presenting there on agriculture and climate but there are many other great speakers as well. Prepare, Respond, and Adapt:…
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Yesterday NOAA released their global climate summary for August 2016. It shows that “the August temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.66°F above the 20th century average of 60.1°F. This was the highest for August in the 1880–2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.09°F. August 2016 was the highest…
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The Western Regional Climate Center provided a map this morning of the maximum temperature (at least so far) for 2016 across the US. Since we’re past the date of most areas’ maximum temperature for the year, this is likely to be close to the map for the entire year. This year, a lot of the…
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MSN published a slideshow of their picks for top photos of rare weather events this week. You can see the slides here. I see a lot of weather photos on my Facebook feed as well as in other places, and these are definitely some good ones. Enjoy!
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This Day in Weather History‘s Facebook page showed a photo of Tropical Storm Esther on September 20, 1061 as taken from the TIROS satellite. As far as I can tell, this is the first time that a tropical storm was identified first by satellite. Here’s the text accompanying the image: “September 20th, 1961 – On…
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Even though you might have a lot of complaints about how hot the summer this year has been, there is at least one place in the United States that had had it worse. The Weather Channel provided a list today of the five places that they think were the most unbearable this summer. Number 2 is…
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