Pam Knox
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I ran across this useful chart from Utah State University on the temperature thresholds that cause damage to a variety of fruit trees. It summarizes how different stages of fruit production from bud to flower are affected by freezing temperatures. You might find it useful as well. You can see it here.
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the current weather pattern is likely to continue for the next week, with most of the rain occurring in the northern and inland parts of the region and little to none in the south and along the East Coast. Northern areas will get a bit of a break…
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You can see the latest monthly climate summary (text) for the Southeast for February 2019 from the Southeast Regional Climate Center at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportFebruary2019.pdf.
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While the 2017 hurricane season is long since gone, parts of the US that were under its impact are still returning to life. Atlas Obscura has an interesting story (originally published in the Huffington Post) about the reblooming of an ancient ceiba tree on the Island of Vieques off the east coast of Puerto Rico.…
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If you are a Georgia Extension agent, you may have stopped by my table at the meeting down in Tifton this week to see my CoCoRaHS rain gauge and checked your county to see how many rainfall observers your county has. But whether you have 50 or none, we would love to add your new…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows very slight changes in the amount of abnormally dry conditions across the region from last week. In Florida the amount of abnormally dry conditions decreased a bit, while there were slight expansions in South Carolina and Georgia. There is currently no drought in the region. The dry…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US was released by NOAA today. It shows that for the lower 48 states, this was the wettest December through February period on record (going back to 1895). Most of the country was wetter than normal, with only a small part of the 48 states drier than normal.…
Posted in: Climate summaries