Pam Knox

  • The National Weather Service Southeast River Forecast Center has released their latest Water Resources Outlook video on YouTube today. Learn more about current conditions and the outlook for the next few months. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwq70oL17b0&feature=youtu.be.

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  • Drought Monitoring Tools

    In our Drought Monitor Forum this week, we are being reminded of the variety of tools that are available to help monitor drought conditions across your region. You can find a list of many of these tools, including the Historical Drought Atlas, soil moisture maps, and vegetation drought response index, on the Drought Monitor site…

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  • NOAA released their latest global climate summary earlier this week. It shows that the earth as a whole tied for its second warmest August ever, after the record warm year in 2016. The summer June through August period was also the second warmest after 2016, and the year to date was the third warmest on…

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  • Yale Climate Connections has a brief but excellent summary of some of the impacts that changing climate is having on food production in today’s posting. They include the impacts of extreme weather, water scarcity, and changing seasons. You can read it here.

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  • SERCH: Fall 2019 newsletter now available

    The Southeast Regional Climate Hub has published their newsletter for Fall 2019. You can read it at https://mailchi.mp/ncsu/serch-2019-fall-newsletter?e=04d8214f9d.

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  • Active tropics continue

    At present there are two named storms in the Atlantic basin. Humberto has become a major hurricane today but is moving away from the Southeast towards the east and is no longer a threat to us, although there is a chance it could hit Bermuda. Tropical Depression Imelda was briefly a tropical storm before going…

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  • Drought Impacts by Category

    I am attending the National Drought Monitor Forum this week in Kentucky, and have been learning a lot of interesting things about the Drought Monitor and some of the changes that they are making to the web site and the maps. One new thing they have added is a state-by-state lists of different impacts expected…

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