Pam Knox
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While conditions in the Southeast have been quite moderate compared to other parts of the United States, heat-related impacts are taking a toll in other parts of the globe. Here are a few stories in the past week. AgWeb reported that a heat wave in Europe is ruining the crops there. Many parts of Europe…
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Since the 1960s, temperatures across the Southeast and the entire world have been increasing, although there is a lot of year-to-year variability which is the bane of farmers everywhere. For the Southeast, a temperature increase of 1 degree F translates into a roughly one-week increase in the length of the growing season based on some…
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The latest edition of the Monthly Water Resources Outlook video from the National Weather Service has now been posted on YouTube. You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX5GUCz2F90&feature=youtu.be.
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While El Niño has not officially started yet, and probably won’t be declared for a few months, the impacts of the expected El Niño are already showing up in predictions for this coming winter. The latest outlooks from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center show that August is likely to be above normal in temperature but there…
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NOAA’s monthly climate summary for June 2018 for the globe was released this week. It shows that June was the 5th warmest for the period dating back to 1880. For the January through June period, it was the 4th warmest on record. You can see more statistics and read the summary report at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-201806.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that abnormally dry conditions have expanded in both North and South Carolina in the last week due to high temperatures and lack of rain. A small area of abnormally dry conditions was also introduced into northern Virginia. The dry conditions may be alleviated somewhat in the next…
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As Director of the Georgia Weather Network, I am very appreciative of all of the partners we have that provide sites for our stations as well as help provide funding to maintain the sites, ensure good communications, and provide good quality control over our data. The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted a story…