Climate summaries
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Earlier this month I participated in the Panhandle Row Crop short course in Marianna FL. The organizers have just released highlights from the presentations at the short course. You can read them and view PDFs of the presentations here at Growing Georgia. If you are interested in seeing my slides (mostly images, fewer words) on…
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The latest climate summary for the earth as a whole was released today. It shows that for February 2020, this was the second warmest on record after 2016. The temperature departures were especially high over Europe, which reported unusual spring-like weather in many places including Finland and Moscow. For the December through February period (Northern…
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The latest monthly climate summaries for February 2020 are now available from the Southeastern Regional Climate Center and for NOAA. The NOAA report also includes a summary for the winter of 2019-2020. You can access them at the links below. SERCC: https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportFebruary2020.pdf NOAA: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202002
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Our friends at the North Carolina Climate Office post a monthly climate summary of what has gone on in their state. The latest one, for February 2020, is now available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=311&h=5666e5c1 . Check it out!
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I’ve started to get questions about whether or not we have seen our last frost for this spring after the warm winter we have just finished. However, it is still well before the average date of last spring frost for most parts of the region except for the Florida Peninsula, so climatologically it seems unlikely…
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The latest seasonal climate maps for winter 2019-2020 (December 1, 2019 to February 29, 2020) show that temperatures were several degrees warmer than normal across the region. As you might expect, there was a lot of variability in precipitation across the region, with northern parts getting much more rain than central Florida as the pattern…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center has a new outlook video available on YouTube. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFZctPAgXnU&feature=youtu.be .