Drought
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Extremely dry conditions are present over many areas of the Southeast, while others are still digging out from the flooding of Hurricanes Matthew, Hermine, and Julia. The map from the High Plains Regional Climate Center shows the percent of normal rain that has occurred since the beginning of October across the Southeast. The region under…
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The Southeast Farm Press published a story by Dennis Hancock, UGA forage expert, on how to handle feeding livestock in the extreme drought that is plaguing parts of Georgia and Alabama. You can read it here. Until the drought lifts, which seems unlikely anytime soon, livestock producers will have to continue to cull cattle, import…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that many areas of the Southeast will get little rain this week. While October is typically the driest time of year, the lack of rain this year is leading to worsening drought. I can think of several areas that probably should be designated as worse than what the Drought…
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NOAA’s latest set of climate predictions was released this morning and show that warmer and drier conditions than normal are likely to occur over large parts of the Southeast for the period November through April, particularly in south Alabama and Georgia and in Florida. These predictions are consistent with NOAA’s reissue of a La Niña…
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The Drought Monitor released this morning shows an expansion of exceptional and extreme drought across northern Georgia and Alabama. Extreme drought also expanded in South Carolina and was introduced into western North Carolina. Moderate drought also now covers almost all of Alabama except for a small area east of Mobile Bay. With almost no rain…
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You may not be aware that there are regular webinars on climate conditions in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin offered to stakeholders in the ACF region. During non-drought periods they are offered once a month but lately because of the drought in parts of the basin, we have been holding them bi-weekly. The next one will…
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted a story this weekend about the extreme drought in Haralson County, 35 miles west of Atlanta on the border with Alabama. The Tallapoosa River there is so low (second lowest on record) that it is now below the intake to their water plant. I’ve heard reports that the river looks like…