Climate summaries
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Hydrologists often use the period from October 1 to September 30 as the “Water Year” to describe rainfall over time. They choose this period because it is the end of the summer depletion of soil moisture and the average start of the fall and winter recharge period. Often, the end of the water year corresponds…
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Yesterday Orlando tied its all-time record for number of days with measurable rain in the month of September. You can read a story about the record here at the Orlando Sentinel website. The airport in Orlando reported more rain today, which means that they have set a new record for the month. Several other cities…
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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