Climate science
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As you can imagine, there are many articles about the South Carolina flood event. The rainfall is now winding down but the flood impacts will occur for a week or more as all of the water moves down the streams through the system. And of course the wet soils will remain for a lot longer.…
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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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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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October 1st marks the beginning of the water year. What is the water year? Here’s an answer from the CoCoRaHS web site at https://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=mod&mod=1: “The water year is the best consecutive twelve months that span the “water storage/water usage” hydrologic cycle. The water year cycle is particularly obvious in the Rocky Mountains and western U.S.…
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Considering the potential for rain across the eastern part of the country this week, particularly the Northeast, you might be interested in this NOAA interactive map on floods across the country. It lists significant floods for each state as well as information on flood safety and the different types of floods that can occur. You…
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Because of the current El Niño, which is expected to last through the winter, heavy rain events of more than 2 inches in a day are twice as likely to occur than usual in the Southeast, according to Florida State Climatologist David Zierden. You can read an article and watch a video about his outlook at…
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If you live near a city, you may have noticed that cities are often warmer than the surrounding countryside, especially on calm, clear nights. Even in a city like Athens, with a little over 100,000 people, we can see as much as a ten degree difference between downtown and the fields outside the city. Smaller…