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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…
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In climatology we use wind roses to show the distribution of winds from different directions over time. Here is an interesting article which uses the same technique to describe the orientation of streets in different cities around the world. I grew up in the flat Midwest where most streets were on a regular grid, but…
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Smithsonian.com has an interesting article on the high temperature records that are being set in Alaska. You might think things have been hot here in the Southeast, but the Arctic is being much more affected by rising temperatures due to feedbacks with ice cover and melting of permafrost, which releases greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.…