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Satellite data is the single most important source of weather data used to input into weather forecast models, providing millions of points of information that help to make forecasts accurate. And yet there was a time when there was no man-made satellite looking down on the earth. April 1, 1960 was the first date that…
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Another outbreak of chilly air is moving into the Southeast this weekend, and it could bring temperatures near or below freezing to northern and higher elevation areas of Georgia and North and South Carolina on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The National Weather Service has issued frost and freeze warnings for Thursday night into Friday morning for…
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NASA has a new web site dedicated to providing resources on sea level for across the US. The site is available at https://sealevel.nasa.gov/. You can also read more about it at TechCrunch at https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/04/nasas-new-sea-level-site-puts-climate-change-papers-data-and-tools-online/. The site is focused on space-based observations (hence why it is coming from NASA instead of NOAA) but has plenty of land-based indicators…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the area of abnormally dry conditions has shifted due to this week’s rains. D0 conditions were reduced in Georgia and northeast Florida but expanded in North and South Carolina. The first image below shows the latest map, and the second image shows last week’s map. The…
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The latest monthly climate summary from NOAA was released yesterday. It shows that for March 2016, the monthly average temperature was the 4th warmest on record and the warmest since 2012. (Incidentally, the record pollen count in recent years occurred in 2012, but we’ve had a lot this year too due to many things blooming…
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Yale Climate Connections posted a story this week about the tough decisions that Southern California farmers are having to make after another winter with low rainfalls. One farmer says that she had to cut 100 acres of vegetables last year (out of 350 total) and another 100 this year due to lack of water. She…
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KOMO TV posted a fascinating video of a weather balloon making a 22-mile high flight through the atmosphere and falling back to earth. You can see it here. As a meteorologist, though, I am even more fascinated by the temperature profile that the balloon travels through. It shows not only the temperature decreasing with height…