Pam Knox
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The latest monthly climate summary for the United State for June 2022 was released by NOAA today. According to the report, June was a very hot and dry month across a lot of the country. It was the 15th warmest June on record and tied for the 12th driest June. You can read more at…
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Do you have a lawn at your home? If so, how do you maintain it? Many things that you use to take care of your lawn contribute to climate change by emission of carbon dioxide or reduction of uptake of CO2 by removing trees in favor of grass. Fertilizer can also contribute because manufacturing fertilizer…
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As I write this on Saturday morning, the rain is pouring down outside my house in Athens, GA. We can expect to see a lot more rain this week as a nearly stationary front serves as the focus for repeated rounds of juicy showers and thunderstorms. Along the front, which is expected to park over…
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The USDM expanded its website capabilities in late June with the addition of county-level statistics on drought to their maps. When you go to their current map at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx and click down through region to state map and then click on your county, you will see a table of drought statistics for that county farther…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a patchwork of improvements and degradations across the region depending on whether an area got hit or missed by the spotty rains. Overall, the percent of the region affected by drought had only minor changes. You can see the change map at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/ChangeMaps.aspx. Alabama improved overall but…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office posted a blog story earlier this week about short-lived TS Colin, which formed near South Carolina and moved along the coast into North Carolina before it dissipated less than 24 hours after it formed. You can read more at The Tropics Come A-Colin – North Carolina State Climate Office…
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We have just finished the first month of the official Atlantic hurricane season. How unusual has it been? One thing is that we have already had three named storms, including Colin this past week (although the last time we had TS Colin in 2016, it occurred on June 6). The average date of the first…
Posted in: Tropical weather