Climate summaries
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The American Meteorological Society has recently released their annual report “Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate Perspective”. In this report they analyze sixteen different extreme weather events for how often they were likely to happen as well as the economic impacts they caused. Part of their analysis was to determine whether the recent…
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AgWeb published a story today on new temperature trend maps that were recently produced by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). These maps show long-term temperature trends for each state for 1895 to the present. You can look at both average temperature and maximum and minimum temperature separately. The graphs are also divided into seasonal…
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The National Climatic Data Center reported that the US as a whole experienced its 9th wettest summer on record (1895 to present) and drought decreased to 33 percent of the continguous area. For the same time period, however, Georgia experienced its 10th driest summer with only 73 percent of normal rainfall, and drought expanded to…
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The latest newsletter from UGA’s Stripling Irrigation Park (available at https://striplingpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2014-Sept-Newsletter.pdf has some great comments on how the wet spring and dry summer have affected cotton and peanuts around the area, particularly in southwest Georgia. Wes Porter, the UGA irrigation specialist, has some good comments about irrigation needs for cotton and peanuts as the seasons…
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The National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, NE, has just released their monthly compendium of stories about drought across the US. Many of these stories focus on the drought in California but other areas are also included. You can read this newsletter and subscribe to it at https://drought.unl.edu/NewsOutreach/MonthlySummary/August2014DroughtandImpactSummary.aspx
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has just posted their summer summary along with an outlook for fall. You can read it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=98&h=37a460a0. They include an outlook for fall colors, so if you are traveling to the area, you might want to take a peek.
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As expected, drought expanded slightly across the Southeast this week in response to hot temperatures and little rain. The percent of the Southwest covered by severe drought expanded from 1.6 to 2.3 percent, all in southern Georgia. Rainfall amounts for the next week should be closer to normal, although the heaviest amounts will occur…