Pam Knox
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After a mostly dry weekend (except for Florida and the mountains), rain chances increase over the week as a front moves closer to the area. By Thursday, rain is more likely with thunderstorms ahead of the front, but may still be scattered. The driest region this week will be southern Georgia. The heaviest rain will…
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Climate.gov has a new article posted describing how September’s climate is changing across the US. You probably would not be surprised to know that it is not changing the same everywhere across the country. But you might be surprised to know that in most of the Southeast except for Florida, it’s gotten cooler over the…
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The latest global climate summary for August was released earlier this week. The report shows that for the earth as a whole, it was the 5th warmest August in the 1880-2018 period. For the summer period of June through August, it was also the 5th warmest on record, and the year to date is the…
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The latest set of temperature and precipitation outlooks was released today by the Climate Prediction Center. They show that for October, the forecasts are leaning towards wetter and warmer than normal conditions. This is basically a continuation of the last few months. The outlook for the rest of 2018 shows that most of the Southeast…
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The heavy rainfall from Hurricane Florence terminated the drought that has recently entered the central Carolinas for good, but lack of rainfall in other parts of the Southeast allowed drought to expand in northern Alabama and moderate drought to enter central Georgia. Alabama may get some relief this week but Georgia is expected to remain…
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If you like beautiful weather images (and I know you do), you will enjoy these two shortlists of weather photographs selected from over 4,000 entries to the Royal Meteorological Society’s annual photo contest and from the Weather Channel’s competition. Visit https://www.weather-photo.org/events/weather-photographer-year/2018-weather-photographer-year/finalists/ to vote for your favorite from RMetSoc and see the top fan favorites at TWC…
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The Packer wrote in an article this week that the prices of sweet potatoes rose after Hurricane Florence brought flooding rain to many sweet potato fields earlier this week. Some farmers were able to harvest a portion of their crops but many others were left in the ground. According to the article it is too…