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It’s just past halfway through August. So far for the month, most of the Southeast is running about a degree above normal, although there are areas with below normal temperatures. Precipitation is highest in Florida followed by Georgia and then Alabama. The Carolinas are the driest part of the Southeast and that is where drought has…
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USA Today published an article yesterday looking at the “flash” drought that is currently occurring in the southern US. If you’ve never heard of the term “flash drought”, then you should know this is a term climatologists use for a drought which comes on very quickly and shows almost immediate impacts to crops and livestock.…
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Cows are one of the biggest producers of methane on Earth, although they are surpassed by methane emission as a byproduct of fracking. Methane is one of the most efficient greenhouse gases, and increases in atmospheric methane are one of the major contributors to the rise in greenhouse gas impacts in the atmosphere. Now, scientists…
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At 5 pm today the National Hurricane Center named Tropical Storm Danny as the fourth named storm of the year. Danny is still far out to sea and it will take a week just to reach the Lesser Antilles, so we will not see anything for quite a while. Danny is expected to become a…
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The National Hurricane Center has declared that the area of interest they’ve been watching in the eastern Atlantic Ocean has a closed circulation by looking at satellite wind data. They have identified it as Tropical Depression 4. Models suggest that it will continue to strengthen during the day today and should become Tropical Storm Danny…
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Do you remember the summer of 2005? That was an incredibly active tropical year, with 27 named storms, including Katrina and Rita. The rain that the Southeast received from those storms as well as the regular summer thunderstorms helped keep the region out of drought conditions that year. Here’s a NOAA summary of that year.…
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The National Weather Service sent out a notice this week announcing the availability of JetStream, their free online course on the weather. You can access the course at https://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/. Here is how they describe the course: “Welcome to JetStream, the National Weather Service Online Weather School. This site is designed to help educators, emergency managers,…