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Over the last month or so I have accumulated a number of stories that you might be interested in. They are listed below. I will do a separate post on stories about peaches, since I have seen a number of them related to peaches in and out of the Southeast in the past couple of…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the region can expect a lot more rain this week. This is a good thing for farmers whose crops need moisture this week. Rain should start on Sunday and there are likely to be several rain events over the next few days. The driest areas will…
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NOAA released their latest monthly climate summary for May 2023 earlier this week. It shows that for the United States as a whole, it was the 11th warmest on record. For South Carolina, it was the 10th coolest on record. For the spring months of March through May, the US as a whole was in…
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Do you enjoy reading about past weather and climate events? If so, you might be interested in this story published in Morning Ag Clips about the very cold summer of 1816, which followed a major volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora that put a lot of emissions into the atmosphere. That kept sunlight from reaching the…
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Today NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center announced that El Niño is here and is expected to get stronger over the next few months. It is expected to last into at least spring 2024, which is as far ahead as the predictions show in their graphics. The ocean temperatures have been in place for a while already,…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that the drought conditions in Florida are improving after recent rains from TS Arlene and other storms. In most other areas of the region, abnormally dry patches have appeared or increased in area in the past week due to the lack of rain. I am starting to get…
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I have been getting comments and questions about whether smoke from the Canadian fires is affecting us here in Georgia. I definitely saw some today, although here it is quite high in the sky and we can’t smell any smoke. However, if you go farther north into North Carolina and Virginia, things are quite a…
Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data