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After a very long dry period for most of the region, including a few mostly meager showers this morning with the cold front that passed through the region, we are finally starting to see a change in the weather pattern by the end of this week. While it will stay dry through Friday, on Saturday…
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We are more than halfway through the month of April, which is the month in 2026 that the CoCoRaHS network works hard to recruit new observers to their network of volunteer weather observers. CoCoRaHS stands for Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, which started in Colorado in 1998 following a devastating flood in Fort…
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Fresh Plaza newsletter has provided a good look at the current conditions for growing vegetables in Georgia and surrounding areas and what is being planted and harvested. They also provide a look at how Georgia farmers pivoted their production following the devastating frost that hit Florida earlier in the spring. It also describes hot heat…
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NOAA released their 3-month outlooks for May through July this week, covering the first part of summer. They show that while temperatures are continuing to be likely warmer than normal due to rising temperatures, the chances for normal or wetter than normal conditions are now higher than they have been for quite a while, which…
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You might have noticed that the number of wildfires in the Southeast has been creeping up as drought conditions become worse and more widespread. We have seen this in previous droughts, so it is no surprise. This article by Seth Borenstein in The Independent talks about how warmer overnight temperatures and changes in humidity are…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the entire region is now covered by abnormally dry conditions or drought. Significant parts of Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina have gotten worse while smaller areas of other states had increases in their areas of different drought categories. The only improvements seen in this map occurred…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina is hosting a webinar this coming Thursday to discuss the latest information about the drought that is affecting the Southeast. While it will focus on North Carolina, I expect that the general information about how the drought began and how it is evolving will be of interest to…