Pam Knox
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NOAA issued their winter forecast for the upcoming winter today. It shows that this will be another year with impacts related to the ongoing third year of La Nina, with warmer and drier than normal conditions expected across the southern part of the country as the jet stream and its associated storms is pushed to…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this week, shows that an area of severe (D2) drought in northeastern Georgia has significantly expanded and moderate drought has developed in western North Carolina due to the lack of any rainfall over the last few weeks. Another area of drought has expanded in the Florida Panhandle into parts of…
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Assessments of the impacts of Hurricane Ian on agriculture in the Southeast continue to come in. Here are some more stories I have seen recently that document some of the problems caused by the storm. Yahoo News: After Hurricane Ian, Florida citrus and agriculture struggle Southeast AgNet: Florida Commissioner Nikki Fried on UF/IFAS Preliminary Agricultural Damage…
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What happens after a hurricane comes through and flattens your community? First you rescue what you can, then you start to determine how to recover and move on. But for those who remain at the devastated location, they often have to rebuild under updated building codes that are much more expensive to engineer, and many…
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The latest ENSO advisory, released on October 13 by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, shows that La Nina continues to be firmly in place. It is likely to continue through the winter and into spring before ENSO returns to neutral conditions. You can read more at https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml.
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Since we are halfway through October, let’s take a quick look at the month so far. The temperature has been cooler than normal across the region, but especially in Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. If you go to the High Plains Regional Climate center ACIS maps at https://hprcc.unl.edu/maps.php?maps=ACISClimateMaps, you can see that daytime high temperatures…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of our region will experience no rain in the next week. A strong cold front will move through the area over the weekend into early next week and drop some rain in Virginia and North Carolina, and southern Florida may see a little rain towards the end…
Posted in: Climate outlooks