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As I was flying to San Antonio this week to attend the eXtension conference, I noticed the tremendous flooding near the Mississippi River due to the recent heavy rains. Sadly, I could not get a photo because I was not in a window seat. In a previous blog post I attributed this to an atmospheric…
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Meteosat Europe produced a spectacular image of Cyclone Gaby over the Sahara Desert today. You can see it below. The winds associated with this storm are pulling air from the Sahara Desert and blowing sand and dust across the Mediterranean and into parts of Europe. You can see some pictures of the dust in several…
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One of the hopes from this year’s strong El Niño was that it would bring enough rain to make a significant dent in the long-term drought conditions there. But while parts of the Golden State received quite a bit of rain from this winter’s storms, particularly in northern California, the amount that was received was…
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When you are looking for weather data, wouldn’t you love to have a site that has it all in one place? While I haven’t yet found a site that has everything I want, this Water Resources Dashboard from the US Climate Resilience Toolkit is pretty complete. Take a look at it and see if you…
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If you like time lapse videos of clouds, aurora, or other natural systems, you are sure to like this video I saw promoted by EarthSky. It shows a time lapse of clouds and fireflies at night. Unfortunately for us all, fireflies are becoming much more rare due to changes in land use as well as…
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A friend of mine posted an interesting article from Texas AgriLife about the liability landowners may have from weather-related accidents at https://agrilife.org/texasaglaw/2016/03/21/liability-landowner-blowing-dust-causes-highway-accident/. In the past I’ve been asked to look at multi-year accidents related to runaway controlled burns and their impact on the creation of dense fog. Other lawsuits could involve badly graded drainage which puts…
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Since the President and First Family are visiting Cuba this week, Marshall Shepherd of UGA put together a description of the weather and climate conditions in Cuba for his Forbes.com blog here. One of the interesting things in the article is how much Hurricane Sandy devastated the island nation, well before it hit the New…