Climate and Ag in the news
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Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information posted another great entry this week on how El Niño varies from year to year in the “Beyond the Data” blog. You can read it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/not-what-i-ordered-how-el-ni%c3%b1o-bad-bartender.
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If you’ve been following the news this weekend you can’t help but see many stories about the massive and unprecedented flooding which is occurring in South Carolina and surrounding areas right now. Some areas in South Carolina have reported over 24 inches of rain in a single day! And the rain is still falling over…
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The journal Nature posted a new article this week on the long-term consequences of drought on California agriculture and why things may have to change in the future in spite of short-term relief from El Niño. You can read the article at https://www.nature.com/news/california-agriculture-weathers-drought-at-a-cost-1.18457.
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The latest forecast for rainfall from the current combination of weather events is shown below. Note that the general pattern and amount of rain expected has not changed. The NWS is still expecting historic rainfall amounts in South Carolina and heavy rain in adjoining areas of North Carolina and Georgia. Slight changes in the weather…
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The streamflow image from https://earth.nullschool.net this morning shows the complicated pattern that is affecting the weather in the Southeast today. The first image shows the surface wind across the Southeast, which includes the spin of Hurricane Joaquin, plus the weaker spin of Investigation 90 to the east, which has an 80 percent chance of becoming a named…
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The 11 pm forecast track for Hurricane Joaquin shows the tendency toward moving the track east is continuing, with the latest track now holding the center of the storm well off the East Coast as it travels north. This will result in less hurricane-based impacts from the storm in the Southeast. The 10:30 pm infrared NOAA…
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As of 2 pm, Hurricane Joaquin is now considered a dangerous category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph battering parts of the Bahama Islands. The latest projected path keeps it off shore, although there is still a lot of range in what the models are predicting. However, the strong flow around the storm directing…