May 2025
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Hope you are all having a good Memorial Day weekend! I am up in Michigan visiting my mom this weekend but will be on the road tomorrow. Not much rain in the forecast here, but we expect more in the Southeast. A line of storms worked its way through overnight and is still working its…
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NOAA released their official forecast for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season today, just a few days in advance of the official start of the season on June 1. As expected, it was fairly close to earlier seasonal predictions posted by Colorado State University and other groups. It shows that the number of named storms is…
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Here is an interesting article from the Missouri Ruralist describing how three different farm families have adapted their cattle farms to respond to changing markets as well as changing climate conditions to make sure that their farm is sustainable and can be handed down to the next generation of their farm families. In all three…
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If you have never heard the term “thirstwave”, you are not alone. I saw it for the first time this week in an article in Nautilus. According to the article, “two hydrologists, Meetpal Kukal and Mike Hobbins, from the University of Idaho and University of Colorado respectively, recently coined the term, which is meant to…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that most of the drought that has plagued the Southeast has been reduced or eliminated after the last couple of weeks of rain. This week’s change is particularly noticeable in Virginia and eastern North Carolina, which received the most rain this week. By contrast, southern Florida continues in…
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Earlier this week NOAA released their latest seasonal outlook for June through August 2025. It shows that both June and the June through August period are leaning toward a forecast of warmer than normal conditions. This is not a surprise because with the upward trend in temperature we have been seeing in the Southeast since…
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Here is a story on a topic you don’t read about every day. A new study done in collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian shows that satellites may be able to help identify volcanoes that are about to erupt by looking for signs of enhanced carbon dioxide emissions in plant life downwind of the volcano.…