Pam Knox
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Earlier this weekend I posted a story about the impacts of rising sea level on water supplies in Miami. This week’s question from the Georgia Climate Project Roadmap addresses how rising sea level will affect coastal Georgia. This will include not only water supplies along the coast, but livelihoods of those who catch crab and…
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As climate changes, agricultural producers are looking to move into new areas with beneficial climates as well as access to irrigation water. Some changes are being seen in the US as corn is now grown in areas that used to be too dry, and crops like olives are now being started in the Southeast. Here…
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Bloomberg Businessweek has an excellent long-form article this week on the multiple stresses that are facing the water supply managers for Miami and the South Florida region. Some of these come from changes in climate, as rising sea level pushes salty sea water into the aquifers and heavier rains cause more frequent floods that push…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that for a large part of the Southeast, there will be little rain in the next week. Great news if you are trying to harvest, but maybe not so good if you are still trying to fill pods or keep your crops going for a few more weeks.…
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Today is September 1, and that means that summer is over and fall has begun for those of us who study the climate! We won’t feel fall-like weather today in the Southeast but hey, maybe this IS fall for a lot of us. Must be fall if there is football, right? UPDATE: I started out…
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The New York Times has an interesting interactive web site which shows you how many days per year your hometown is above 90 F now and how that is likely to change over time. It also compared your hometown to other parts of the world, many of which will feel a lot more heat than…
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Since today is the last day of August and of summer 2018, I thought I would take a quick preliminary look at the climate of the past three months. As you can see from the High Plains Regional Climate Center maps below, in August temperatures were variable across the region, with the warmest temperatures along…
Posted in: Climate summaries