-
Today marks the 30th anniversary of a weather event which caused significant damage to agriculture across the Southeast as well as many other problems. A major cold outbreak spread over the Eastern US, extending all the way down into Florida. It caused at least 126 deaths and killed off 90 percent of the citrus crop […]
-
On paper, 2014 was close to an average year climatologically for Georgia. The annual average temperature was 63.0 F, just 0.4 F below the 1901-2000 average. The annual total precipitation was 51.13 inches, just 1.06 inches above the average. Both of these are well within the range of what is considered a “normal” year. But […]
Posted in: Climate summaries -
The latest seasonal forecasts were released by the Climate Prediction Center this week and show little indication of what our next three months could be like. With the chances for an El Nino rapidly waning, there is nothing in the atmospheric pattern to suggest whether our temperature and precipitation will be near, above or below […]
-
The Packer published an article this week which described the impacts of a freeze on January 4 on the production of greens in Georgia (link). “Temperatures in the Norman Park growing region bottomed out in the low 20s, said Tommy Collinsworth, sales and marketing director for Norman Park-based Baker Farms LLC. As a result, the […]
-
If you enjoy reading about history as much as I do, you will be fascinated about this brief history of weather forecasting put together by Chris Robbins, who runs iWeatherNet.com. Official weather forecasts have been produced by meteorologists for well over 100 years, first by the US Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau and now by […]
-
The snow in the upper Midwest last week highlighted several interesting features in the landscape. One of them was a tornado path from an EF3 tornado that traveled along a 40 mile long path through a forested area northwest of Green Bay, Wisconsin in 2007. The Weather Channel has a nice video and write-up of […]
-
An interesting story published this week in Phys.Org discusses the pattern of zebra stripes and attempts to determine how their patterns form. Researchers from the University of California published a report this week in Royal Society Open Science which shows a statistical relationship between the pattern of black and white stripes on zebras in different regions to […]
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news