Climate and Ag in the news
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The National Weather Service Southeast River Forecast Center has released their winter water resources outlook on video this week. It is based on a live webinar they held and lasts about 20 minutes. It discusses the effects of the strong El Niño and the outlook for winter and spring. They also discuss the increased chance for river…
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NOAA’s latest global climate summary for September 2015 was released this morning. According to the report, September 2015 was the warmest September in 136 years of record, and the January through September period was also the warmest on record for the globe. Of the last nine months, seven were the warmest on record, January was…
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The USGS, working quickly, has provided a preliminary report on the South Carolina floods which describes the weather conditions that led to the flood and the consequences of the heavy rain on stream flows in the area. You can get the report at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20151201.
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What do we expect this coming winter now that the strong El Niño is here? Mike Halpert of NOAA discusses the likely conditions across the US in the Climate.gov blog post here and shows the variation of previous El Niño winters from strong to weak years. Even in the strong years, there is still quite…
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You probably could not guess it from our quiet Atlantic tropical season, but 2015 has already experienced a record number of tropical storms this year. According to Minnesota Public Radio meteorologist Paul Huttner in this blog post, this year has set new records in both number and intensity of the storms, based on extremely active Pacific…
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CoCoRaHS observers in Blue Ridge and Rabun Gap, Georgia, in the far northern part of the state commented on frost in their area overnight. Sunday night into Monday morning will probably be even a little colder than last night. The NWS has issued a series of frost advisories (light blue) and freeze warnings (dark blue)…
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AP’s The Big Story blog posted a story yesterday on the deaths caused by the floods that recently swept South Carolina. Ten people drowned in their cars in the Columbia SC area from October 3 to 5 as flood waters ravaged the city. “Some were going to work. Some were going to someone else’s aid.…