Drought
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Today’s Drought Monitor shows a mixed bag of drought trends across the region. While dry conditions were reduced or removed from southern Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia and the area of extreme drought in northeast Georgia shrunk still further due to recent rains, two areas of extreme drought appeared in southern Georgia and the area of…
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Heavy rain in the northern part of our region continues to whittle away at drought and abnormally dry conditions, but drought is expanding in the southern half of the region. The area of severe drought in northeast Georgia continues to shrink, but a new area of severe drought has been added to Florida just north…
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The latest monthly climate outlook from the Climate Prediction Center indicates that most of the Southeast has equal chances of near, above or below normal temperatures for the next 30 days. The next few days should show significant cooling as a strong cold front moves through the region on Thursday May 4, bringing significantly cooler…
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The Southeast Farm Press had an interesting story this week about the South Carolina Water Resources Summit meeting held recently at Clemson University. In the story it describes the recent climate patterns in SC, including the lurch from floods in October 2015 to drought in 2016 followed by another 1000 year flood when Matthew moved…
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The rain in parts of the Southeast experienced in the last week put a significant dent in drought conditions in Virginia, South Carolina, and especially North Carolina in this week’s Drought Monitor. Southeast Florida also had their dry conditions wiped away by recent rains there. The extreme drought in northeast Georgia was also whittled away.…
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The WunderBlog posted an article a few days ago describing how bad the drought in Florida has become due to the combination of unusually warm temperatures and below-normal rainfall. Even though this is generally a dry time of year for Florida, it has been dry even by their standards, and the Drought Monitor has been…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows an expansion of drought and abnormally dry conditions in a good chunk of the Southeast from last week. In Alabama and Georgia moderate drought has increased and some severe drought has been added to southern Georgia in places where little rain has been received on top of…