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The State Climate Office of North Carolina announced this week that they are welcoming a new director who will also serve as the State Climatologist. Kathie Dello comes to the Southeast from Oregon, where she was the Associate Director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and Deputy Director of the Oregon Climate Service, the…
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While I was out of town enjoying sunny conditions in Alaska (they are in a pretty bad drought), the Southeast has had mostly wet and warm conditions for the first 12 days of the month. Next week should be relatively dry so the departures will trend back towards normal rainfall.
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Since the beginning of the month, severe drought was added to the Southeast. Thanks for your comments to the Drought Reporter! But heavy rains since then caused the DM to reduce the amount of D2 drought in the region. This coming week should be mostly dry so I don’t expect big changes to the next…
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Today marks the beginning of climatological summer in the Southeast. Hope it’s a good one! Seems like we’ve had an early start to the Dog Days of Summer this year. I’m taking a break from the blog for two weeks while I travel to Alaska and the Yukon with my mom. How great is that?…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that only light rain can be expected in most of the Southeast in the next week. After a dry weekend, rain chances improve slightly during the week. The wettest areas will be the interior of the Florida peninsula and the mountainous areas of Georgia and the Carolinas. The pattern…
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The Climate Prediction Center released an updated outlook for June 2019 this afternoon. It shows that all of Florida and parts of the rest of the region lean towards warmer than normal temperatures. There is no indication of whether June will be wetter or drier than normal at this point, leading to “equal chances” of…
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I’ve seen a number of articles in the news lately about agriculture and how it can affect and is affected by rising temperatures, more extreme weather, and other signs of a changing climate. Here are few listed below. AgWeb: Animal Agriculture and Climate: Separating Fact from Fiction Progressive Farmer: Ag Offers Answers to Climate Change…