Pam Knox
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows a slow expansion of drought over northern parts of the region in the last week. There was a slight improvement in Alabama with the removal of a sliver of moderate (D1) drought and reductions in drought in Georgia. South Carolina saw an expansion in abnormally dry conditions but…
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A recent report published in the scientific journal Nature and described here by BBC indicates that as the globe continues to warm and the Antarctic Ice Sheet melts rapidly, the infusion of fresh meltwater into the ocean could cause large changes in the large-scale ocean circulation that transports heat, salt, and nutrients around the world.…
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The Georgia Climate Conference is being held in Athens GA on May 15-17 at the Georgia Center on campus. It is three days of talks, panel discussions, and tours about how climate change is affecting Georgia and what groups and citizens are doing to curb it and to respond to its impacts. There will be…
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With two freezing events in March after a very warm winter that got plants blooming almost a month earlier than normal, there was bound to be some damage. Fortunately, even though some orchards with early-blooming varieties of peaches were hit hard, later-blooming varieties were hit less hard and should produce a delayed crop. The decrease…
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The latest monthly climate outlook was released by NOAA earlier this week. It shows that the region is expected to be warmer than normal. Northern AL and the mountains are also slightly leaning towards wetter than normal conditions based on the current weather pattern. The drought in and near Florida is expected to persist and…
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The very heavy rain that California has experienced this year has provided many challenges for agricultural producers this year. Many orchards have been flooded, leading to suffocation of the tree roots due to lack of air in the soil, and farmers have not been able to do any field work for weeks due to the…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows a continuation of the pattern that we have seen quite often during the winter, with the heaviest rain falling in northern AL and GA and the Southern Appalachians and stretching off to the northeast and drier conditions in Florida and southern AL and GA. Once the front that is…
Posted in: Climate outlooks