Even though we are past the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, there are still some signs of life out there. On the map below the named storm is Subtropical Storm Fay. This type of storm has a different temperature structure than a true tropical hurricane but can still pack…
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The National Weather Service office of the Southeast River Forecast Center has released their latest water resource outlook video on YouTube. If you are interested in short- and long-term predictions of rainfall and its impacts on drought, stream flows, and soil moisture you may be interested in viewing this seven-minute…
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The Chicago Tribune published a recent article on the increasing move of American to coastal areas. The number of people moving to the Florida coastline alone has increased 1.1 million since 1990, not including part-year residents. A third of that coastal development has been on the shoreline itself, in spite…
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A Time magazine article today highlights one of the local impacts of changing weather patterns on disease vectors. Because of all the rain that has fallen in the Southwest due to inputs of hurricane moisture from the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the associated flooding, mosquito populations in Phoenix and surrounding…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center posted a direct link today to a NWS web site which provides easy access to some of their products, including some graphing capability. The direct link is https://www.sercc.com/nowdatamap and the product is called NOWData for NOAA Online Weather Data. An example of the kind of…
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The Washington Post issued a story yesterday discussing the nearly nine year drought in hurricanes hitting Florida and why it might portend danger for Florida residents. They pointed out that more than a million people have moved to Florida since the last hurricane hit in 2005 and that many of…
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Yesterday’s USDA blog “Farmers go digital to confront changing growing conditions” highlights agricultural tools developed for the Midwest by the U2U group (“Useful to Usable”) at Purdue University and affiliated universities which show variations in climate patterns by El Nino phase and how they affect yields and other agricultural variables. …
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