2018
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The Atlantic posted a series of photos taken this week in Puerto Rico, where 450,000 homes out of 1.5 million are still without power months after Hurricane Marie. Imagine trying to live in conditions like this. Restoration of power and clean-up of all the debris will take years, and that assumes they don’t get hit…
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Here’s a notice of the upcoming Severe Weather Preparedness Week from our friends at the NWS office in Peachtree City: Beginning next week (Monday, February 5), with support from our state emergency management partners (GEMA), we will recognize Severe Weather Preparedness Week for the state of Georgia. Each day (through Friday, Feb 9) will address…
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ABC News has a new video out featuring Ginger Zee discussing the long-term decline in orange production in Florida. In the last year it has been seriously impacted by Hurricane Irma but even before that citrus was declining due to citrus greening and drought. You can read more and watch the video at https://abcnews.go.com/US/floridas-orange-crops-quietly-dying-decade-growers-fight/story?id=52612301. (Personal note–Ginger…
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Eos has an interesting article this week discussing the impact of distant volcanic eruptions on the flow of the Nile River. A new paper in Nature Communications discusses the evidence “indicating that a series of eruptions may have caused sharp drop-offs in the summer rainfall usually brought by the African monsoon.” The cooling from the…
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According to an article by Associated Press, 2017 was tied with 2016 for the warmest year on record for Georgia, as noted by Bill Murphey, the State Climatologist. Atlanta broke many records during the year and other cities also observed records. Murphey attributed the warmth to a combination of factors including warm nighttime temperatures and…
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With just a couple of days to go before the end of the month, it looks like most of the Southeast will end up colder and drier than normal. This morning’s maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center are shown below. Keep in mind that this map does not include the rain that many…
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The latest blog post from Deke Arndt in Climate.gov’s Beyond the Data discusses the state-by-state extremes in weather reported by the National Centers for Environmental Information. These include tidbits like the lowest low temperature, the highest high, the biggest hailstone, the strongest wind, etc. Are all of these records reliable? How do we know? Read the…