Pam Knox
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that there have been improvements across the region. While a lot of the region is already out of drought due to earlier rain events, this past week additional rain has improved conditions in eastern NC, SC, and northern AL, and in Puerto Rico, too. This weekend…
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Once the current storm system moves out of the region, it should be relatively dry until late in the week, when the next system moves in. It looks like it will be another wet one and Alabama could see several inches by Saturday night, with the rest of the region experiencing the rain following after…
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With the end of the official winter season, now is a good time to compare the winter outlooks for the Farmers’ Almanac and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. A quick look shows that the CPC did a much better job of depicting our wet and warm winter than either of the almanacs did. We don’t know…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued an updated outlook for March 2024 at the end of the month. It shows that for a lot of the Southeast a continuation of the wetter and warmer conditions is likely. We are already starting out with a very wet first week, with some areas expecting 5 inches or more,…
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Every March, the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (known as CoCoRaHS for short) hosts a competition between states to see which state can recruit the most new observers. In the past, they have called this March Madness, but after concerns about the college basketball tournament not looking kindly on that name, they have…
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After every extreme weather event, scientists study the effects of the event to see what they can learn from the consequences of that event. One of the lessons learned after Hurricane Idalia shows how “living shoreline” projects provide more protection to ocean fronts than other methods of protection from high waves and storm surge. Living…
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Do you like mustard on your hot dog? Or is ketchup your jam? (I use both.) Are you a hot-sauce lover? You may be interested in this article from Modern Farmer discussing how extreme weather around the world has affected the production of several popular condiments, including all three of the above. Shortages in some…
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