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I was surprised to read on Facebook today that the Farmers’ Almanac is stopping publication after the 2026 Almanac after publishing continuously since 1818. They did not give a reason for stopping as far as I can tell. While scientists generally don’t consider their weather and climate forecasts to be particularly accurate (they have been…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that a upper level low passing through the region this weekend may generate all the rain we are likely to get for the next seven days. As I write this on Saturday night, an area of light showers is passing through western Alabama and may bring some light rain…
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UGA Pecan Specialist Lenny Wells wrote a blog post earlier this week describing the impacts of this summer and fall’s weather on the current pecan crop. According to his post, “The issues we are facing are the result of three different factors–1) excessive summer rain, leading to scab in some places and conditioning trees to…
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The latest outlook for the November 2025 climate was issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center earlier this week. It shows that the prediction for temperature has equal likelihood of near, above, and below normal temperatures. We do expect cooler than usual temperatures for the next week with slowly rising temperatures, then another cool down by…
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Now that Hurricane Melissa has moved out of the region, farmers there are starting to assess the incredible losses that they are experiencing from the devastating storm. I have not seen many actual numbers yet because it takes time to do a complete assessment of the losses, as we know from our own experiences with…
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With the passage of a cold front through the region on Wednesday, cooler and drier air has filtered into the region. Once the clouds move out, radiational cooling should drop the temperature in many places into the 30s, leading to the probability of frost. Most places will not get down to freezing except the higher…
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Here’s a different way to depict the increase of the earth over time. According to the creator, Harlan Brothers, his YouTube video presents “a visualization and sonification of global temperature anomalies over land. The deviations are based on the average temperature from 1950 to 1980. Each note (and point on the graph) represents one month.…