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Heavy rainfall over the last week has put a significant dent in severe drought conditions in Georgia and South Carolina, reducing it by half. Other categories of drought and dry conditions were also reduced in those states. No change was seen in North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama. Southern Florida missed…
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I’ve previously posted about the exceptional drought which is currently threatening Cape Town, South Africa. Drought has also been a threat to the Southeast, especially the 2007 drought which caused concern that Atlanta and Athens in Georgia might run out of water. Here is an interesting story from Business Insider…
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Cape Town, in South Africa, is currently experiencing a drought so bad that it is estimated to happen only once every 300 years (or to be more accurate, is experiencing a drought that has a chance of occurring in a given year of 1/300). This is worse than our D4…
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The latest set of outlook maps for May 2018 and beyond are now available from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. They show that May leans towards warmer and wetter than normal for all of the Southeast, with the strongest signal in southern Florida. Warmer than normal conditions are also more likely…
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The line of storms that moved across the Southeast this past week has put a dent in drought in most parts of the Southeast. Reductions in moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions were seen in every state, and only a few small areas of South Carolina and Florida increased from…
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If you follow the national Drought Monitor, you know that parts of Oklahoma are currently in D4 Exceptional Drought, the highest classification of drought there is. Because of this, things are tinder-dry, and there have been many wildfires which have affected cattle production in the area. Here is a story…
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The USDA Climate Hubs recently published a paper describing the results of a survey of their field agents and how they are dealing with increases in extreme weather and changes in climate over recent decades. You can read more information about the report at https://www.climatehubs.oce.usda.gov/hubs/topic/usda-field-staff-surveys. According to that page, “In order…
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