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The latest QPF forecast for this week shows that most of the Southeast is expected to receive less than half an inch of rain this week. This at the same time that temperatures are expected to continue to be above normal. The one-two punch is expected to add a lot of stress to growing plants,…
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Climate.gov has a great new entry on their “Beyond the Data” blog. Deke Arndt of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information writes on the value and the problems that come with ranking data year by year. You can read it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/second-place-really-first-loser. Here’s the cartoon that goes with it:
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The latest outlooks for the United States are available from the Climate Prediction Center. They show that for most of the Southeast, above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation have an increased chance of occurring both in July and the July through September period. This is a continuation of the pattern we have seen in…
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I want to take a minute to recognize Jordan McLeod, former University of Georgia graduate student, as the winner of the 2014-2015 WxChallenge, a yearly national collegiate weather forecasting competition. You can read the UGA press release here. Jordan is now a climatologist with the Southeast Regional Climate Center in Chapel Hill, NC, a great source…
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The latest Drought Monitor was released this morning. It shows that moderate drought expanded in the region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida due to the hot and dry weather we have experienced this week. You can see more at https://www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu/.
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NOAA has released their latest climate report for the global climate. In the report, available at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201505, they note that May 2015, March-May 2015, and the year to date January through May 2015 were all the warmest on record since records began in 1880. Precipitation amounts varied tremendously from on location to another this month.
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NOAA has announced their weather photography contest winners for this year. You can view them at https://www.weather.gov/photocontest/.
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