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By Marshall Shepherd, Contributor

You see it blowing tree limbs, flags, or leaves on the ground. This weekend people from the mid-Atlantic to northeast United States will experience quite a bit of wind as a Nor'easter storm impacts the region Friday and Saturday.

Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor and director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program, received $50,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to examine the role of weather and climate in the 2016 Appalachian fire outbreak.



The project will involve a climatological study using historical data to examine changes in the probability of extreme droughts in conjunction with…

How did the storm rapidly blow up from Category 1 to 4, why is it so stuck over Houston, how can it possibly produce so much rain? 

Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor Marshall Shepherd will receive the 2018 Helmut E. Landsberg Award from the American Meteorological Society.

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More than 20,000 spectators gathered in the University of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium on Monday to watch the moon blot out the sun.

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It didn’t get quite as dark as hoped, but Monday’s solar eclipse was still totally thrilling for thousands of school children in Clarke County.

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Atmospheric Sciences Program director to chair NASA advisory committee.

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These medals are awarded for outstanding research or creative activity within the past five years that focuses on a single theme identified with the University of Georgia.

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The University of Georgia CubeSat project is among 34 small satellites selected by NASA to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard missions planned to launch in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

The UGA project, led by a team of undergraduate students and including faculty from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering, performs multispectral analysis from low Earth orbit, in this case an altitude of 400 kilometers.

Much of the flood-inducing rainfall that has pummeled California over the last month flowed into the region via a river in the sky. But these so-called atmospheric rivers, which transport large quantities of water vapor poleward from the tropics, can wreak havoc in the Southeast as well.

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