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As you can imagine, there are many articles about the South Carolina flood event. The rainfall is now winding down but the flood impacts will occur for a week or more as all of the water moves down the streams through the system. And of course the wet soils will remain for a lot longer.…
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As a climatologist and geographer I am always fascinated by the variety of maps that are available. You can measure the “climate” of many things, not just the weather. This week Matt Daniel, meteorologist at WMAZ in Macon, posted this map of the most active time for deer movement across Georgia from the Georgia Wildlife…
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September 23 marks the autumnal equinox, which means the official start of astronomical fall (remember, climatological fall started on September 1). The official time of the equinox is 4:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time. EarthSky had an article this week discussing why day and night are not equal on the day of the equinox which you might find interesting.
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The Southeast Farm Press reported earlier this week about the devastating impacts of the flash drought that is affecting South Carolina as well as parts of North Carolina and Georgia. Ironically, wet conditions last spring delayed planting of many crops and probably reduced the number of acres of corn planted. Then hot and dry conditions…
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The latest Drought Monitor this morning shows decreasing drought in Georgia and Florida but increases in drought and abnormally dry conditions in Alabama and North and South Carolina. You can visit the Drought Monitor at https://www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu/. Predictions for rainfall are below average for the next few weeks so this is likely to expand over time,…
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Today marks the anniversary of the Indonesian volcano, Krakatoa, which erupted catastrophically on August 27, 1883. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has a history of the event at https://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/history/1883.shtml. It is considered to be one of the most explosive eruptions in history and it is said that the shock waves in the atmosphere went around the…
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The Japanese Meteorological Agency has a new weather satellite, the Himawari-8. It has incredibly high resolution pictures in both space and time. The CIMSS satellite blog (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center) has an example of the stunning images that are available from the satellite…