Pam Knox
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NOAA released their monthly and seasonal outlooks for temperature and precipitation today. The outlooks show that the temperature for both July and the July-September period is leaning towards warmer than normal conditions. This is most likely linked to the trend towards warmer temperatures we have seen over the last 50 years due to a warming…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier today, shows that the area of severe (D2) drought has been eliminated from Florida but elsewhere in the Southeast abnormally dry (D0) conditions have expanded. Florida and South Carolina are the only states that have not seen an increase in dry conditions. Moderate drought (D1) expanded in Virginia and…
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The latest monthly global climate summary was released by NOAA earlier this week. It shows that for the earth as a whole, May was the third warmest in records that date back to 1880. There was also a record-low amount of sea ice for May in the Antarctic, a big change from a few years…
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Here is a very helpful online tool that I used today for creating custom maps of NCEI normals for anywhere in the United States that you might like to try. It was created by the Northeast Regional Climate Center and is located at https://ncei-normals-mapper.rcc-acis.org/. It is quite easy to use. It allows you to pick…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office posted a report on the recent occurrence of skies filled with smoke from the Canadian wildfires and the problems it caused for air quality in their region. You can read it at Rapid Reaction: Smoky Skies Create Unhealthy Air Quality – North Carolina State Climate Office (ncsu.edu).
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As promised, here are some recent stories about peaches from the Southeast and other production areas of the country. The peach harvest in Georgia was hit very hard this year, but other areas also were badly affected by weather. WABE: Georgia peach crop decimated by bad weather, warming climate Georgia Farm Bureau: Significant decline in…
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Over the last month or so I have accumulated a number of stories that you might be interested in. They are listed below. I will do a separate post on stories about peaches, since I have seen a number of them related to peaches in and out of the Southeast in the past couple of…
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news