{"id":3686,"date":"2015-07-12T08:59:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T12:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2015-07-04T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T15:46:26","slug":"meet-your-climate-specialists-state-climatologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/07\/meet-your-climate-specialists-state-climatologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet your climate specialists: State Climatologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this series I previously mentioned the state climatologists for each state as a source of useful information on climate, agriculture, and any number of other things. \u00a0If you have a question related to weather or climate (and sometimes astronomy, earthquakes, and animal behavior as well), they have probably heard it. \u00a0State climatologists have a wealth of practical information about weather and climate in their home states but often have knowledge that ranges far outside their own boundaries. \u00a0They are very skilled at figuring out what you really need and then can help you get it. \u00a0And if they can&#8217;t answer your questions, they probably know someone who can!<\/p>\n<p>This week I will be touring the state climate offices for each state in the Southeast to give you a flavor of what each one does. \u00a0If you live somewhere else in the United States, never fear! \u00a0Your state probably has a state climatologist as well. \u00a0At the moment, there are only two states with no state climate services: Massachusetts\u00a0and Tennessee, although some states are more active than others.<\/p>\n<p>You can find a link to your state climatologist at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stateclimate.org\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.stateclimate.org<\/a>. \u00a0The official organization of state climatologists is the American Association of State Climatologists; I am a past president of this fantastic organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/AASC_banner_logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3687\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/AASC_banner_logo-1.png\" alt=\"AASC_banner_logo (1)\" width=\"261\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this series I previously mentioned the state climatologists for each state as a source of useful information on climate, agriculture, and any number of other things. \u00a0If you have a question related to weather or climate (and sometimes astronomy, earthquakes, and animal behavior as well), they have probably heard it. \u00a0State climatologists have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}