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With less than a month to go until school begins again in parts of the Southeast, thought are starting to turn to football, and schools are preparing to start football practice in anticipation of the upcoming season. But with the hot weather we are having this year, the danger of excessive heat on the health…
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The hurricane forecasters at Colorado State University released an updated seasonal hurricane forecast for the Atlantic basin this week, and it shows that that they have increased the number of named storms by one from their earlier forecast. They are now forecasting 15 named storms, the most since 2012. They are also predicting 6 hurricanes…
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Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is generally the time when the monsoon develops in India. The monsoon provides the major rain that allows crops to grow in that country, and the failure of the monsoon causes immense suffering, crop damage and famine in the area. Even though you might think that “monsoon” is just a…
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Today marks the 18th birthday of the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, more frequently known as CoCoRaHS. Nolan Doesken, the founder of the network, has some interesting information on how the network got started in his most recent newsletter, which you can read here. I have been a CoCoRaHS observer in Clarke County,…
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A new website which collects information on wildfire in the Southeast is now available at https://southernwildfire.net/. This website collects information on wildfire research geared towards Southeastern wildfires as well as shares success stories on dealing with forest fires. It includes information on SouthWRAP, the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment online mapping tool, an evaluation tool for assessing your…
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For those of you wondering how to know when to expect high levels of heat stress on livestock, the USDA has a great web site which contains daily heat stress maps for the US for up to a week ahead. Today’s forecast for Monday June 13 shows high levels of heat in a large area of…
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NOAA released their latest summary for May, spring (March-May) and year to date for the US today. You can see the summary at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/201605. The summary shows that for May, the country as a whole was fairly close to the long-term average, although some regions were colder or warmer than average, particularly the Pacific Northwest.…