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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…
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A recent article in Nature Climate Change by UGA scientists Mathew Hauer and Deepak Mishra and former UGA scientist Jason Evans highlights the severe impacts that rising sea level is expected to have on coastal populations in the US (the abstract is here). The scientists show that based on current projections of sea level rise…
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The next couple of nights are going to be quite chilly in northern parts of Alabama and Georgia and frost is likely in higher elevations. Some extension agents have told me that in some areas frost damage to fruit trees is a concern because they are blooming so early this year due to the warm…
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