June 2018
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If you watch the news, you might think that the number of volcanoes erupting has increased in recent years. It’s an important question for climatologists since volcanic emissions can affect the climate. However, I saw this article from Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program today which indicates it really isn’t increasing, but the media are paying more…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that all of the region will get rain this week. The lightest amounts will be in North Carolina and Virginia, with less than half an inch expected. The heaviest amounts will be along the Gulf Coast and along the Florida peninsula, with several inches expected. If you look…
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Atlas Obscura posted a story about the Indian Monsoon Palace this week. It was originally an astronomical observatory where weather and the monsoon were also tracked. Later it became a location for Octopussy, a famous James Bond movie. The story reminded me of one of my favorite books, “Chasing the Monsoon: A Modern Pilgrimage Through…
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“Sunny day flooding” is a term for flooding that occurs when no rain is falling. It could occur when rain falls upstream of an area and the streamflow from that rain overflows the banks of the stream. In this article, it is flooding that is occurring from rising sea levels along the coast of Florida…
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Growing Georgia published a timely look at the crop conditions for Georgia corn and peanuts this week. In spite of the rainy conditions, southern rust this year is quite low. This may be due to changes this year in the wind patterns which bring the spores up from the tropics. Some of the earliest planted corn…
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Is it ever going to stop raining? I’ve been getting this question a lot in the last couple of weeks, as farmers and everyone else get inundated by repeated rounds of thunderstorms that develop over the afternoon hours and grow in the late afternoon heat. I’ve gotten almost three inches of rain in the last…
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While the total amount of abnormally dry area in the Southeast decreased from last week, there was a new addition to the map. A small area of abnormally dry conditions was introduced to west central Alabama, while the northeastern spot of abnormally dry conditions shrunk. All of the region remains drought-free this week.
Posted in: Drought