Climate summaries
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Since we’re in a new month, I thought I would show you the long-term trends in temperature and precipitation for the Southeast. Many of you remember how wet last April was and how difficult it made field work. It was one of the top five wettest on record for the Southeast. However, the trend line…
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Now that March is almost over, here are the preliminary maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center showing temperature and precipitation departures from normal. They show that March for most of the Southeast was warmer and drier than usual. The warmth allowed quick germination and growth of newly planted corn and brought out many…
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As predicted, freezing temperatures made it down to Macon and even farther south this morning. The map below from the Georgia Automated Weather Network at 7:30 am shows a broad area of cold temperatures covering most of the northern half of Georgia as well as some areas to the south. Fortunately, the southern part of…
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The State Climate office of North Carolina has released their latest blog posting this week on last winter’s conditions in NC. In the blog posting they also provide an analysis of how the forecasts from folklore and from their own analysis panned out. They close with an update on El Nino and its likely impacts…
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NOAA has released their global climate summary for February 2015 and winter (December-February) 2014-2015 today (the summary has a link to the full report). The summary shows that February 2015 was the second warmest February on record for the globe as a whole, following February 1998, which was a strong El Nino year. The December…
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We’re about halfway through March, and so far for the month the Southeast has been warmer and drier than normal across almost the entire region. The warmth has been especially strong in Florida and southern Georgia. Dry conditions in southern Alabama have contributed to the continuing drought there. Generally the coolest temperatures have corresponded with…
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Farmers are starting to plant corn in southern Georgia and other areas of the Southeast. Rome Ethredge, in the Seminole Crop E News blog (link), pointed out that corn needs about 100 GDD to emerge from seed to seedling, and that areas in his county are reaching that now. In fact, in spite of the…