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If you think it has been cold in the Southeast this year, you might be interested in this story about the coldest cities in the world as posted in the Daily Passport: https://dailypassport.com/where-are-the-worlds-coldest-cities/. The temperatures at each of these cities is much colder than anything we experience in our region, but that does not stop…
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released last Thursday, shows that a lot of the region improved its drought status in this past week due to a strong system that brought rain to northern Alabama, northwest Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and parts of the Carolinas. The only small areas where drought got worse were along the southeast…
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This time of year I get a lot of questions about how this year’s weather is affected by changes in the climate over time. Here is an interesting article from Time magazine that describes the kinds of changes we expect to see across the United States. Since I am from Western Michigan, I was interested…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that drought conditions generally improved in Virginia and North Carolina this week but got worse in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. Overall, 84% of the Southeast was experiencing dry conditions or drought at the time the map was made. There are currently no dry conditions in…
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The latest climate outlook maps for February 2025 show that temperatures across the region are expected to be warmer than usual during the month across the region. Precipitation is expected to be drier than usual in the Florida Peninsula but a slight trend towards wetter conditions can be seen in parts of Tennessee and NW…
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You might not know it, but the Athens area in Georgia is located in a radar “hole” where the radar beam from the NOAA radar at Peachtree City is so high off the ground that it misses a lot of low-lying precipitation as well as storm structure that could be important for monitoring severe weather…
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The recent snowfall in southern Georgia and nearby regions brought a lot of moisture and cold temperatures to the citrus groves that are growing around that part of the state. Lindy Savelle, the executive director of the Georgia Citrus Association, suggests that now would be a good time to treat the snow-affected trees with fungicide…
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