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Recent weather events have caused a number of impacts on livestock in the Southeast. Here are a couple of recent news stories about some of the impacts. Earlier this week National Public Radio ran a story about the effects of both drought and flood on Texas cattle ranchers. The whipsaw from drought to the recently…
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The Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, called CoCoRaHS for short, is a network of volunteer precipitation observers across the US and now into Canada as well. They collect daily rainfall observations in a set of uniform rain gauges and enter the data into their website at https://www.cocorahs.org. Today is CoCoRaHS’s 17th birthday. Here…
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In his briefing for the Appalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River stakeholder group today, Florida State Climatologist David Zierden noted that the eastern Pacific Ocean is nearly at the threshold for a strong El Nino now and should pass that threshold in the next month. He presented some information about what to expect from a strong El Nino based…
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The center of TS Bill has hit the coast of Texas near Matagorda Island TX. Rain is extending far outside the immediate center of circulation and on radar you can see bands as far north as eastern OK and as far east as the bootheel of Louisiana. I love this streamline image from https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-97.36,28.39,1095–you can zoom…
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Earlier this week, NASA released its latest estimate for May and year-to-date global temperatures. The latest data show that for 2015 so far, the Earth is on pace to set a new record high temperature. This is due in part to the presence of the large pool of warmer than normal ocean temperatures in the…
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As of 10 pm, the National Hurricane Center has declared there is enough of a circulation in the Gulf of Mexico to declare it a tropical storm named Bill. As predicted, Bill is headed for Texas where the ground is already sodden from persistent rain in the last few weeks. This means that flooding is highly…
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Since it is halfway through June, let’s take a look at how the region is stacking up so far. For the region as a whole, temperatures are running 1-2 degrees above normal and precipitation, 1-2 inches above normal. However, the final average temperature for the month is likely to rise since the current above normal…