Pam Knox
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Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! This webinar series provides the region with information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics such as wildfires, agriculture production,…
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Today is the start of astronomical summer, when the sun is highest in the sky. You can read more about the solstice at https://www.space.com/summer-solstice-when-what. Today is also Share Your Stripe Day, when people across the world share their stripes that depict the earth’s warming climate. The graph below shows the annual average temperature for the…
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We have been in a fairly wet pattern for the last few weeks, although with hit or miss convective rain a few spots always get hit hard while others get missed. This pattern is shifting this weekend to one where a dome of high pressure is located across the eastern United States extending down into…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released their updated monthly and seasonal climate outlooks earlier this week. They show that the July-September period is expected to be warmer than usual although July alone has equal chances of near, above, and below normal temperature in spite of the end of June being very hot. The same periods are…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows small increases in dry conditions in several states as recent rains have continued to fall. The extreme drought is now gone from Florida and other areas have been reduced. A couple of small areas on the eastern coast of Florida did see slight expansions of drought.…
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We’ve been in a rainy pattern for the last couple of weeks, as discussed in a different post today. Since the rain has been very convective in nature with a lot of heavy downpours and thunderstorms and some strong winds in places, the rainfall has been very hit or miss. Some places have received a…
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The latest ENSO update, released earlier this week by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, indicates that we are currently in neutral ENSO conditions. This is expected to continue through the end of 2025, although the percentage likelihood of La Nina conditions are nearly as likely late in 2025 and early in 2026. There is a small…
Posted in: El Nino and La Nina