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  • The Southern Region Extension Forestry group has a list of forestry-related newsletters that are available for subscription.  They cover a variety of topics on southern forestry. You can see the list at https://www.sref.info/news/newsletters.

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  • In this series I previously mentioned the state climatologists for each state as a source of useful information on climate, agriculture, and any number of other things.  If you have a question related to weather or climate (and sometimes astronomy, earthquakes, and animal behavior as well), they have probably heard it.  State climatologists have a…

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  • Now that so many people have smartphones, the use of weather apps has increased dramatically.  But you have to be careful using these apps, because sometimes the information they provide, which appears to be based on science, may be more “wish-casting” than forecasting. Dan’s Wild Wild Science blog at the American Geophysical Union has a…

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  • Here in Athens GA it is raining as I write this.  Not a pleasant day to celebrate the Fourth, unless of course you like rain!  Most of the Southeast should see at least an inch of rain in the next week.  Some areas in the peninsula of Florida and in the mountains could see more.…

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  • After a few more days of heat, the Southeast should get some welcome relief from the hot conditions, according to the Climate Prediction Center and other NWS outlets.  You can see the 6-10 day anomaly map at https://www.cpc.noaa.gov.  Some of the extended models have the cooler conditions extending out through the first week of July.…

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  • The NC CRONOS/ECONet Database, developed by the State Climate Office of North Carolina, enables the public to quickly and easily retrieve archived observations from 35,433 (13,127 active) weather sites and 14,502 water sites in and around North Carolina.  CRONOS stands for Climate Retrieval and Observations Network of the Southeast database, and there are many additional…

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  • Problems with the ocean near the US coasts have been linked to the unusual climate we have seen lately across the country.  Here are some stories that show different climate impacts on the sea. ThinkProgress posted a story on Thursday about the huge toxic algal bloom that has forced the shut-down of fisheries along the West…

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