The next few days should be sunny and dry for most of the Southeast, but once Monday hits, watch for rain chances to increase. A slow-moving weather system will start dropping a significant amount of rain in western parts of the region by Monday and the system will slowly progress…
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NOAA released their summary for the past winter on Friday (link to summary report here). Statistics for February are also available there. The report notes that: Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, andWashington each had their warmest winter on record. In California, the winter temperature bested the previous seasonal record that occurred…
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The Climate Council has a nice new video which explains the difference between weather and climate in just three minutes. You can view it at their web site here. AgroClimate also has some resources on this topic at https://agroclimate.org/fact-sheets-climate.php. Or contact me for some PowerPoint slides on this topic. What’s…
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Since the sun is the source of all incoming energy for the Earth, it will not be surprising to know that variations in sunlight drive changes in climate on both short and long time scales. Of course the most obvious change is the cycle of seasons, which is driven by…
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As I was driving in to work this morning, I noticed a few snowflakes drifting through the air. Some of you in Atlanta and north Georgia may have seen a few more. When I got to work, I found this video on falling snow taken from a high-speed camera in…
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This morning NOAA sent out a press release indicating that the long-anticipated El Nino has finally officially arrived. We’ve been flirting with El Nino-like conditions for several months since the first El Nino watch was issued last spring, but until now the conditions haven’t quite come together. Here is a…
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Here’s a preliminary look at winter across the Southeast, courtesy of the High Plains Regional Climate Center. Most of the region experienced below normal temperatures, with the exceptions of a few hot spots along with southern Florida. There was a lot of variation in precipitation across the region, with the…
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