September 2016
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This November NOAA will launch their most advanced weather satellite yet, the first GOES-R series. If the launch is successful, this satellite will allow us unparalleled opportunities to improve our knowledge of weather and also to improve our ability to forecast the weather, since the majority of data that goes into weather forecasting models is…
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The latest QPF forecast for the Southeast shows the lowest rainfall amounts for the next week are over the driest area in the region, where extreme drought expanded in this week’s Drought Monitor. The forecast indicates that little relief is on the way in those area and that drought may continue to get worse, especially…
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In recent years I’ve seen a number of Facebook posts showing photos of massive dust storms moving through the Southwestern US, many of them near Phoenix. A study published this summer by NOAA meteorologists posits that the 2008 recession led to the abandonment of many farms, allowing them to serve as a source of the…
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Recently Athens received two new WeatherSTEM weather stations, one on the main UGA campus atop the Geography building and one at the State Botanical Gardens. Other locations around the Southeast have also received similar stations, and more are scheduled to go in. One of the products that WeatherSTEM puts out is a set of basic…
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You may be tired of all the heat we’ve experienced over the summer and looking forward to cooler weather. While I don’t think we are going to see any early season snow storms this year, you might enjoy reading about some of the earliest major fall snow storms that the US has experienced. You can…
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The Southeast Farm Press reported this week that the peanut harvest in South Carolina is underway and that yields this year have been affected by pests and weather. Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus has been more prevalent this year than in previous years, and SC extension agents attribute that in part to the relatively mild winter…
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Around midnight on September 22, 1989, Hurricane Hugo came ashore near Charleston SC and moved rapidly inland. I flew through Charlotte just a day after Hugo moved through and was amazed at the damage in the area I saw from the air and how red the rivers were running with all the eroded clay soils…