Pam Knox

  • The Vegetable and Specialty Crop News published an article this week on the impact of weather on Florida peaches.  Research is showing that peach leaf rust is a big issue for Florida peaches. According to the article, “Due to Florida’s hot, humid and rainy summers, peaches are much more susceptible to the rust. The disease can…

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  • NOAA: Climate Data Primer

    NOAA put out a very useful primer on how to use climate data on their blog this week.  It describes how climate data are used and where to get what you need.  If you need climate data in your work or your kids need it for school, you can check out their instructions at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/primer/climate-data-primer. You…

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  • The latest outlook for April 2017 was released yesterday by the Climate Prediction Center.  It shows an increased chance of above normal temperature will be continuing this month but that there are equal chances for near, above or below normal precipitation during the month.  This week’s QPF forecast shows a very wet start to the…

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  • Following the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, both the Soviets and the United States went into a flurry of satellite building.  As part of that race to space, on April 1, 1960, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Television Infra-Red Observation Satellite (TIROS-1), the world’s first successful weather satellite.…

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  • Wet week ahead

    After a beautiful sunny weekend, rain should return to most of the Southeast this week with a vengeance, with up to five inches over the next seven days forecast in a few isolated spots.  This will be great news for farmers and others concerned about the abnormally dry conditions which have developed across much of…

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  • The month of March is almost complete, and overall in the Southeast it’s been a very dry month, with large parts of the region receiving less than half their normal rainfall.  No wonder the abnormally dry area in the Drought Monitor expanded so much this week!  It’s also been a little above normal in temperature…

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  • Our NWS radar has come a long ways from the days of the old black and white radars!  Now we have dual-pol doppler radar in multi-color with all kinds of bells and whistles, but this image shows what they had to work with in 1973.  The hook echo just to the southwest of the center…

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