Pam Knox
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The National Hurricane Center has released their final report on Hurricane Milton, which crossed the Florida Peninsula in 2025. You can read it at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142024_Milton.pdf.
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If you are interested in hearing more about the impacts of Hurricane Helene on western North Carolina, you may be interested in watching this 80-minute long documentary discussing what led up to the flooding from Helene and the aftermath of the heavy rain, wind, and flooding on communities there. It spends some time at the…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the rain in the next week will fall over Sunday and Monday as two lines of storms move through the area on Sunday and Monday. Some scattered severe weather is expected from the storms, although there will be more to our northwest where the most suitable…
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Update: Slides are now available at https://site.extension.uga.edu/climate/files/2025/03/2024-growing-season-and-2025-outlook-march-28-2025-slides.pdf. The video is at https://youtu.be/HnsnUvNcW3k. I am planning to do a webinar on Friday, March 28, at 10:00 am EDT with a review of last year’s climate and a look ahead to the 2025 growing season. It will focus on Georgia but will also cover the Southeast more…
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Carbon Brief recently published an interesting article that described how climate change will modify the area of land that is suitable for a variety of different crops, including many that are planted here in the Southeast. The authors provided a graph that shows how the areas suitable for tropical crops like banana may expand in…
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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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The World Meteorological Organization recently released its latest State of the World report. In it, it describes the carbon dioxide levels as the highest in 800,000 years and the annual average global temperature for 2024 as the highest since records began 175 years ago. An El Nino enhanced the warming caused by carbon dioxide and…