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Above-normal temperatures continued in Georgia for a fourth straight month in September. Departures from normal temperature were even higher in September than in August. The hottest areas were in the northwestern half of the state where no cooling relief from tropical storm rain and clouds occurred. Tropical storms Hermine and Julia provided much needed rainfall…
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A new study in Nature magazine describes a new very-long-term temperature record assembled by a scientist at Stanford University from 61 different proxy climate records. Proxy records are climate records based on things like tree rings, ocean sediments and ice cores which change depending on climate factors like temperature. The new record shows temperatures for…
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You may be tired of all the heat we’ve experienced over the summer and looking forward to cooler weather. While I don’t think we are going to see any early season snow storms this year, you might enjoy reading about some of the earliest major fall snow storms that the US has experienced. You can…
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Now that cooler temperatures have finally returned to the Southeast, it is time to think about fall and the change of colors. There are a number of websites available to help you find times and places to see peak colors. Country Living highlighted a map which shows how peak color moves from north to south…
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In the past week I’ve seen two very interesting stories about the increase in coastal flooding in recent years. NASA News reported that while the threat of rising seas due to warming oceans is very real, the phenomenon of large coastal cities sinking has not been well reported. Extraction of groundwater or fossil fuels, and…
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AgWeb had an interesting story today on how some farmers are finding meteors in their fields as rocks rise to the surface each year under the influence of repeated frosts. If they are big, they can be sold to a collector or donated to a local museum. You can read about it here.
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Eleven years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast. One of the hardest hit areas was the Mississippi Coast, where Stennis Air Force Base is located. Many NOAA personnel were located there and suffered severe personal losses from the direct hit. Last year they put together a story site which contains information about…