Climate and Ag in the news
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their official forecast for the winter of 2015-16. You can read it on their blog at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=166&h=5666e5c1. Here’s their summary of what to expect for North Carolina this winter. The more general aspects of the forecast are also applicable to the rest of the Southeast, although snowfall…
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I’ve been asked why the National Weather Service Office in Peachtree City, GA, is not issuing freeze warnings today even though tonight is the first expected occurrence of killing frost this year for parts of north and central Georgia. You can see the hole in the warnings on the national warning map below. Freeze warnings (dark…
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With widespread frost expected across northern and central Alabama, Georgia and points farther east and the cold winter season upon us, you might find this blog post from the National Forests blog on myths about cold weather interesting. For example, did you know that you do not lose most of your heat from the top…
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The NWS Office in Peachtree City, Georgia has issued this press release on the coming winter conditions and how the strong El Niño is likely to affect snowfall and other extreme weather events. Here is the text of the press release below: While pegged to have the strongest El Niño since 1997-1998…
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CNN posted an interview with Dr. Erin Lipp, professor of environmental health at the University of Georgia, on the topic of the impacts of changing climate on health and diseases. Dr. Lipp says that the changes in climate we have seen in recent years can increase risks for human health, no only through increases in…
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A continuation of our current weather pattern will bring a week of mostly dry conditions to the Southeast. The exception is the Florida peninsula, which will see about an inch of rain, mainly on Saturday and Sunday as a cold front moves through the area.
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If you are looking for simple fact sheets on how El Niño will affect your area or other regions around the country, including US territories, NOAA has collected a series of links to fact sheets at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/regional-el-nino-impacts-outlooks-assessments. There are also some links to other El Niño information at this site.