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Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics such as wildfires, agriculture…
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A new study released this week by scientists from Columbia University shows that deaths from hurricanes are likely far higher than the official counts released by the National Hurricane Center, according to an article by Seth Borenstein at Associated Press. The scientists looked at excess deaths after the storms, a standard statistical technique that is…
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The latest 7-day precipitation outlook for the Southeast shows that most areas of the region other than Florida will get little to no rain in the next week. Most shower activity that occurs will be late in the week. This is due to a big area of high pressure that will dominate the weather pattern…
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Now that we are approaching the peak season for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes, suddenly the National Hurricane Maps have become a lot more interesting. Today’s 7-day outlook shows four different potential areas of development. Fortunately for us in the Southeast and western parts of the basin, the two eastern storms, which are the most…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that abnormally dry (D0) conditions expanded in most states this week with the exception of Georgia, which saw reduced coverage due to recent rains. Small areas of moderate drought (D1) were added to North Carolina and Alabama, and drought expanded slightly in Florida this week. There…
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The latest 7-day tropical outlook shows that the two disturbances that appeared earlier this week now both show a 50% of developing into a named storm in the next week, although the eastern one is not likely to approach land if it forms. A third area of interest is now depicted in the Gulf of…
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NOAA released their monthly climate report for the earth earlier this week. The report showed that this was the warmest July on earth since records began in 1880, 174 years ago. It was also the 4th consecutive month of global sea surface record temperatures. While the Southeast was not the hottest region of the world,…