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Florida International University announced a new Spanish-language web site for hurricane preparedness this week. This web site provides information on preparation, taking care of pets in severe weather, protecting your property, and evacuation procedures as well as historical information on past hurricanes. You can find the site at https://huracanes.fiu.edu/.
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How do we know about past climates and prehistoric civilizations? Since we don’t have instrumental records or written histories, we have to use clues from the environment to help us decipher what the past was really like. “Proxy data” are used to try to find a link between something that we can observe, like tree…
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WABE, NPR’s radio station in Atlanta, produced a story today about projected urbanization changes in the Southeast. At current growth rates, we could see a nearly continuous string of urban areas stretching from southwest of Atlanta all the way to Raleigh NC and northeast. How would the increase in urbanization affect local climate conditions? The…
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There are six regional climate centers across the US. While the Southeast is covered by the Southeast Regional Climate Center, each of the centers has a variety of tools that can be used across the country to provide weather and climate data. Today we will focus on the Midwestern Regional Climate Center and look at…
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Since it is near the end of the month, let’s take a look at how the month is likely to shake out. The temperature departure map shown below from the High Plains Regional Climate Center shows that almost all of the Southeast is above normal in temperature. For Georgia I estimate that the temperature should end up…
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For the end of Lightning Awareness Week, I want to list a couple of articles that contain very useful information on where and when lightning strikes and the most likely ways that you can be affected. Did you know that 15 percent of all lightning deaths are work-related? And of those, 34 percent are to…
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The 7 day QPF shows that most of the Southeast will receive only scattered showers for the next week. The best rain chance is Saturday into Sunday as a front approaches the area. Once the front comes through, we should have a few dry days before the chance of showers increases again later in the…
Posted in: Climate outlooks