Pam Knox
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NOAA released their latest monthly climate summary for the globe last week. It shows that globally, this was the warmest May since records began for the earth as a whole in 1880. It is the 12th month in a row that has set a global record for warmth. The global oceans have been record-setting warm…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that the high temperatures combined with limited rainfall in most areas led to an increase in abnormally dry (D0) and drought conditions in parts of the region this past week. A large area of abnormally dry conditions formed in Virginia with smaller increases in other states…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the Southeast is expected to get very little rain in the next week due to the presence of a strong high pressure center across northern parts of the area. This high pressure is also going to bring very hot conditions to the region, especially in northern…
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I am traveling this week but wanted to let you know that the National Hurricane Center is now showing two areas of potential development in the Gulf of Mexico in the next week. The first, designated as Investigation 90-L, is in the Eastern Gulf near Florida and is associated with the plume of moisture that…
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NOAA released their latest monthly and seasonal summary for the May and March-May periods, respectively, earlier today. The summary shows that a lot of the country was warmer than normal for both the May and March-May periods. Wet conditions were present in many parts of the US, including the Southeast, although both Florida and the…
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Here is another story about evaluating hail damage to crops, following the one I posted earlier this week. Nebraska Farmer posted this article about the evaluation of hail damage to corn. It encourages farmers to wait at least a week to see how much the crop can recover on its own before making a final…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that while most of the region will be relatively dry, the Florida Peninsula could see multiple inches of rain this week due to a change in the weather pattern that will allow warm moist air to move across the Peninsula starting later this weekend. The National Hurricane Center is…
Posted in: Climate outlooks