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Here is an interesting piece of weather history that you might not have heard of. Back in the 1880s, John Park Finley, a member of the Army Signal Corps (a precursor to the Weather Bureau, which began in 1890) started making tornado forecasts based on his observations of the weather that often occurred when tornadoes…
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UPDATE: It is now available for Android phones as well, so check it out! Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I do not have high regard for a lot of weather apps that are available for smartphones. They are called “crap apps” by meteorologists for a reason. The National Weather Service…
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You might think it is too early to start thinking about the tropics and potential tropical storm activity, but this is actually a great time to review hurricane forecasts and prepare for the season. That can include things like taking inventories of equipment for insurance purposes in case you get hit by a storm and…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows two areas where heavy rain of up to 5 inches will fall in the next week. In the next two days, a band of heavy rain will occur along and just north of the Georgia-Florida border. This could result in flooding of fields and washing out of any newly…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought expanded and got stronger across quite a bit of the region but especially in eastern Georgia, South Carolina, and western North Carolina. The data cutoff for this map was before the last storm occurred, but many areas did not receive much rain from the line of…
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I drove today across central GA and noted that peaches are blooming everywhere from Watkinsville to Tifton (and south, too, I am sure, but I did not go that far). That means they are vulnerable to a later than normal frost. I did not see any blueberries on my drive but I know some varieties…
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I don’t usually talk about politics in this blog, but as a former National Weather Service employee and as someone who uses weather and climate data from NOAA and the National Weather Service on a daily basis, I am appalled at the recent moves by the federal government to recklessly fire numerous employees in these…
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news