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NOAA released a new climatology of hurricanes today, just in time for the start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. This climatology looked at satellite images of hurricanes and tropical storms and used optical recognition to categorize the storms by the presence and size of eyes. They compared…
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Extension Agent Jeff Cook has an interesting post on what all the recent rainfall is doing to crops, including peanuts and peaches, in central Georgia. You can read it on the Three Rivers Ag News blog site at https://site.extension.uga.edu/threerivers/2018/05/much-needed-rain/.
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As expected, Alberto has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to impact the Southeast in the next few days. It is designated a subtropical storm because it has some characteristics that are different than a typical tropical storm, but will have the same types of impacts on…
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I read an interesting story this week in Business Alabama about Alabama irrigation. Did you know that only 10% of Alabama agriculture is irrigated compared to 50% in Georgia and 60% in Mississippi? I always wondered why, and this article explained it. It is a combination of deeper aquifers which…
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If you are interested in more information on the current weather and the outlook for the next week, here are two slide sets from the National Weather Service forecast office in Peachtree City GA and the Southeast River Forecast Center from media briefings earlier today. They provide more details about…
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Long-time residents of Georgia may remember the devastating floods of Tropical Storm Alberto in July 1994. The rain was so intense that Georgia’s one-day rainfall record was set during that storm, with 21.10 inches recorded at Americus for a 24-hour period ending on July 6, 1994 as the storm stalled…
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Widespread heavy rains across the Southeast with up to ten inches in a few isolated locations have put a major dent in drought conditions across the region. Many places had drought and abnormally dry conditions completely removed. Others saw the areal coverage of drought reduced by up to two categories….
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