Pam Knox
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After a few more days of heat, the Southeast should get some welcome relief from the hot conditions, according to the Climate Prediction Center and other NWS outlets. You can see the 6-10 day anomaly map at https://www.cpc.noaa.gov. Some of the extended models have the cooler conditions extending out through the first week of July.…
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NOAA is now predicting a 90 percent chance of a strong El Nino lasting into the fall and most likely through the winter. What does that mean for impacts across the country? Cliff Mass has an excellent blog posting on this subject at https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-strong-el-nino-develops-what-does.html. Even though his blog is directed towards the Pacific Northwest, you can…
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Some NWS offices are holding Lightning Safety Awareness activities this week, and I thought it was a good reminder to all of us who spend time outside in the summer. The NWS Summer Safety Awareness resources pages can be found at https://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/weatherreadynation/summer_safety.html#.VYlHfflVhBc. Lightning myths and facts https://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/myths.shtml Understanding lightning https://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/science/scienceintro.htm And finally, I am happy to hear that…
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A friend of mine pointed out this interesting new web site from ESRI called Hydro Hierarchy. The web site allows you to look at the relationship between rivers and their drainage patterns across the US. A bar plot on the lower left shows the 2014 streamflow values. The radial graph on the top left shows…
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The latest blog posting from SIFT (“Southeast Innovative Farming Team”) is out and features an article by David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, on the recent weather conditions in the region. Looks like more hot and dry weather for the Southeast! You can read his update at https://www.siftag.org/southeast-drying-out-more-hot-and-dry-weather-on-the-way/.
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Growing Georgia published an article last week noting that the yield of Vidalia onions this year was lower than normal due to wet conditions in April as well as temperatures as low as 15 degrees and high winds and hail which also damaged the onions. The hail caused enough damage that some farmers did not…
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If you are an astronomer, today marks the official start of astronomical summer (for climatologists, it started on June 1). The sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky at 12:39 PM EDT. You can read about the solstice at https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/june-solstice.html. EarthSky also has a nice gallery of photos taken at Stonehenge in England, where the…