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After Invest 97 formed over the weekend, it developed into Tropical Storm Erin on Monday, August 14, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is currently moving over a relatively cool ocean and is interacting with some Saharan dust but it is expected to move over more favorable conditions in the next few days and is…
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My UGA colleague Bob Kemerait and several others all asked me why it was so cold and rainy in Georgia earlier in August. Here is what I wrote him: I have attached thermographs of Athens and Albany temps below (the Tifton NWS station is missing most of August so far). The first part of summer…
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NOAA released their global climate summary for July 2025 earlier this week. It shows that for the whole Earth, this was the third warmest July since records began in 1880. For the year to date, it was the second warmest on record, after 2024. You can read more details at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202507.
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Many of my friends that work or worked in the National Weather Service have been affected by the reduction in the federal workforce that started after President Trump took office. The result was a significant loss of personnel in the NWS and in NOAA, leading to cuts in service because so many positions were vacant.…
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NOAA released their monthly climate summary for July 2025 a few days ago. They discuss the unusual nighttime warm temperatures in the eastern half of the US as well as the multiple flash flood events that occurred during the month. In particular, the flood event in the Texas Hill Country killed 133 people during the…
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Wet conditions are expected to continue to drop a lot of rain on the southern half of the region this week starting this weekend. Rain is already covering a lot of Florida and will provide rain to coastal areas along the Gulf Coast as well as the East Coast in the coming days. The northern…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that the recent significant rains that fell across a lot of the region cause a reduction in dry conditions in Georgia and South Carolina and parts of Alabama. The rain was due to overrunning of moist air over a wedge of cold, dense air moving SW…
Posted in: Drought