Pam Knox
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The Tampa Bay Times has an interesting story this week about how rising sea levels are threatening many historic sites along the Florida coast, including many historic forts, Native American sites, and other heritage sites. This is also true of other Southeastern states, where many historic sites are located near the coasts because of their…
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Lee Shearer of the Athens Banner-Herald has an interesting story about a new island that was created along the Georgia coast by storm surge associated with Hurricane Irma last September. According to the story, the new island formed when the storm shifted the channel of Blackbeard Creek and blew out part of a narrow finger…
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Even if we don’t see much of the white stuff in most years here in the Southeast (this year excepted), it’s always fun to look at pictures of snowflakes and dream of white yards from inside a warm house. EarthSky has posted some amazing photos of snowflakes from their readers here. The story also includes…
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The USDA has announced the availability of a new GIS-based plant hardiness zone map, which is zoomable and is based on 1976-2005 data. You can read more about it at https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/AboutWhatsNew.aspx. You can access the map at the link above by clicking on Interactive Map on the top menu or go directly to it at https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/InteractiveMap.aspx.
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the Southeast will have only a little precipitation this week, with some areas receiving none at all. The cold temperatures will minimize loss from evaporation but the lack of water may contribute to increasing the drought in next week’s Drought Monitor.
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The Packer reported this week that cold temperatures and rain in the Southeast have delayed harvest and discolored peppers in Florida and decreased yields in cucumbers, eggplant and squash. In the Northeast, icy roads slowed the movement of trucks through the region. In California, fires and mudslides caused problems for crops like avocados and shut…
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The latest climate summary for 2017 was just issued by the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can access it at https://sercc.com/climateinfo_files/monthly/southeast_monthly_report/southeast20171_12.pdf.
Posted in: Climate summaries