Climate summaries
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The latest Drought Monitor came out this morning and shows that severe drought has been reduced to less than half a percent of the Southeast. It is now confined to an area in the panhandle of Alabama surrounding Mobile. Abnormal dryness continues in many areas of the Southeast except for the Florida peninsula, but is…
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The State Climate office of North Carolina released a blog post today describing the coastal snowstorm of 1989 in North Carolina. If you are dreaming of a white Christmas, you might enjoy the story, which is at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=111&h=5666e5c1.
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NOAA released their November 2014 summary for the globe today, and it showed that November was the 7th warmest on record for the earth as a whole, although the Southeast and the eastern half of the US was very cold throughout the month. For the year to date, 2014 is the warmest on record for…
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Farm Industry News published a very interesting panel discussion on the future of farming across the world in the face of changing climate, consumer demands, and other challenges. You can find it at https://farmindustrynews.com/precision-farming/future-farming. One of the themes that come up in the discussion over and over again is the important of water availability and…
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With only two weeks to go in the year, it is worth taking a first look at how the year is likely to end up. The maps below show the temperature and precipitation departures for the year to date. These maps are from the High Plains Regional Climate Center and you can update them at https://www.hprcc.unl.edu/maps/current/.…
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The CoCoRaHS network (Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network) is a group of volunteer precipitation observers across the US (and a few in Canada) that take daily precipitation readings using a simple rain gauge and reporting online using a computer or smartphone app. I am a regional coordinator for this program, which has been…
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NOAA released their temperature and precipitation rankings for the month of November today. The rankings show that Georgia was the fourth coldest since records began in 1895. Alabama was the 2nd coldest, South Carolina the 5th coldest, and North Carolina the 9th coldest. Florida, by comparison was only the 19th coldest November on record. The…