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Even though there is no snow in the forecast for most of the Southeast at the moment, you might enjoy this. The Washington Post has a nice video describing how snowflakes get their shape. You can read more and view it at https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/12/26/how-snowflake-gets-its-shape/?utm_term=.21707cff1bd4&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1.
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The first hurricane forecast for the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season was released this week by Colorado State University. It shows that we could see a bit of a break in the upcoming hurricane season, with fewer storms expected than the past two years. This is due in large part to the likely development of an…
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This past year has been a year full of disasters in the US alone, with many more occurring in other parts of the world. How did we handle those disasters? What lessons can we learn from dealing with those events? This Vox article discusses some of the things that we will have to deal with…
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While most of the Southeast is soaked with rain, the southern half of the Florida Peninsula has been dry and getting drier. This week brought a slight expansion of moderate (D1) drought in the region. In the next week they are expected to get little to no rain, so it should remain static or continue…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their December 2018 climate summary. It also contains a summary of all the rain they had in 2018, including a potential new all-time annual record for the state. You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=277&h=5666e5c1.
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December 2018 was two to four degrees warmer than normal across most of Georgia, ending a warm but not record-setting year for the state. Precipitation in most of the state was much wetter than normal, with a significant fraction of the state receiving well in excess of 10 inches of rain. A number of stations…
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Georgia experienced many different weather and climate patterns in 2018. Here are five that stand out for their impacts on the state, listed in more or less chronological order. Snowy January Two different snow storms affected parts of Georgia in January 2018. Early in the month, snow fell in a swath across southern Georgia, bringing…
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