Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor is out, and it is not good news for the Southeast. Extreme drought has been reintroduced to Georgia for the first time since February 2013. A small area of northeast Alabama is also in extreme drought. The good news is that rainier weather returned to parts of the Southeast this week;…
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With almost half the year gone, it is a good time to look ahead to what is likely to happen the rest of this year and in 2017 based on the current climate pattern. While this outlook is specific to Georgia, most of the information is generally applicable to the entire Southeast. This year began…
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Dairy Herd Management has one of the best discussions I have seen about the end of the current El Niño and what is likely to happen with the coming La Niña. It’s written in a general way, not geared to livestock, so crop producers and foresters should read it too. Here’s the link. Unlike El…
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I am sitting here at my house listening to thunder roar and the rain pour down. Serves me right for talking about drought expanding this week! I want to show you from my own experience why networks like CoCoRaHS are so important. The map below shows the radar-estimated storm total rainfall from the NWS Peachtree…
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Haaretz.com posted a story this week describing the severe drought which has affected northern parts of Israel, resulting in nearly record low levels on the Sea of Galilee. The low amounts of precipitation over the last three years have dropped the lake levels precipitously, and if it drops another five feet they will have to…
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This morning’s new Drought Monitor shows that while the total drought area decreased slightly from last week, the area of severe drought expanded in Georgia and Alabama. With the high pressure center parked over us and excessive heat and little rain forecast for this weekend, the drought is likely to expand further in next week’s…
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The latest Drought Monitor shows an significant expansion of severe drought in both Alabama and Georgia. Dry conditions early in June and a miss by Tropical Storm Colin coupled with very warm temperatures has allowed severe drought to grow, expanding south from the northern portions of those states into the Birmingham and Atlanta areas. Hot…