Climate summaries
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The ACF Basin is drought-free according to the most current U.S. Drought Monitor (data as of 7/20/2021). Webinar recording can be found here.Next month’s ACF Drought and Water Webinar is on Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 1:00pm ET.Register here for upcoming ACF monthly webinars. Sign up for ACF drought list here. July Key PointsACF Climate Conditions and OutlooksTropical Storms Danny…
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I am getting a lot of calls about the day after day of rain. It’s not just the amounts, which are sometimes large but often just a tenth of an inch or so. It is also the frequency, which is enough to keep farmers from being able to apply fungicides, growth inhibitors, and other treatments…
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If you missed the regular monthly Southeast Climate Update Webinar, you can see a recap of the webinar at https://www.drought.gov/drought-status-updates/southeast-climate-update-and-webinar-recap-5. A recording of the webinar is also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzO0Rh8Q2Q. The next webinar will be held on August 10 at 10 AM ET. You can use the first link above to get more…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the globe was released today by NOAA. It showed that this June 2021 was the fifth warmest since records began in 1880. The year to date is the 8th warmest on record. You can read the highlights at https://www.noaa.gov/news/june-2021-was-5th-warmest-june-on-record-for-globe and the statistics at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202106.
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If you are tired of thinking about hot weather, you might be interested in reading this new report on the extreme weather that hit the central US and especially Texas in February 2021. It is published by the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) and focuses on the weather in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas,…
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The monthly climate summary for the US was released by NOAA late last week. The summary showed that due to extraordinary heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and in the Northeast, the average temperature for the 48 contiguous states was 72.6 F. That is 4.2 degrees above normal and higher than the previous record June…
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The latest monthly climate summary for June 2021 is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2021/07/rainfall-extremes-in-june-jumble-the-state-drought-map/.
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