August 2021
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It took all day, but at 11 pm the National Hurricane Center declared the potential TS 6 has organized into a tropical storm named Fred. TS Fred is expected to continue on its predicted path along the arc of islands and then into the Gulf of Mexico. Fred is likely to have quite a bit…
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If you missed today’s monthly climate update webinar for the Southeast, you can listen to the recording at the link below or view the online recap. Webinar recording can be found here. Share this recap using the online version. Next month’s Southeast Monthly Climate Webinar is on Tuesday September 14, 10:00am ET. Register here for…
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What would you do if you had no water for your crops or livestock because of a multi-year drought that has dried up most surface water sources? Some farmers in California are trying to get water through pumping groundwater, but as more people pump, the water tables get lower and it becomes too expensive to…
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As of 11 pm tonight, Potential Tropical Storm 6 (soon to be known as Fred) is moving west into the Caribbean and then NW towards the Florida peninsula. Of course, since it is not even a named storm yet, there is a lot of uncertainty about where this storm will go and how strong it…
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NOAA has released their monthly climate summary for the US for July 2021. You can read the summary of conditions at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202107 or view that and many other national climate reports at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/. The summary shows that Florida and Virginia were the most above average in temperature, with other areas near or slightly cooler than…
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The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued their newest report today, and the news was filled with the disturbing results of the new study today. I am not going to address that today because you can read that from other news sources but did want to mention something associated with it that was overshadowed…
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The latest 5-day tropical outlook for the Atlantic tonight shows two areas of interest. The closer one may track over or near Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and Cuba before approaching the US mainland, most likely as a weak storm. The farther one is less organized and who knows where it will go. There is also another…
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