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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their latest climate summary for September 2015. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=155&h=5666e5c1.
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October 1st marks the beginning of the water year. What is the water year? Here’s an answer from the CoCoRaHS web site at https://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=mod&mod=1: “The water year is the best consecutive twelve months that span the “water storage/water usage” hydrologic cycle. The water year cycle is particularly obvious in the Rocky Mountains and western U.S.…
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My meteorologist friends have been filling up social media today with the latest information on Hurricane Joaquin, currently a strong category 2 storm in the Atlantic Ocean. (Note: at 11 pm it was increased to a major Category 3 hurricane.) It is moving slowly southwest now but is expected to make a sharp right turn and…
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September 2015 was cooler than normal for most of the Southeast, based on preliminary data through this morning. This was in stark contrast to most of the rest of the country, which was much warmer than normal. Precipitation across the Southeast varied quite a bit, with the Florida peninsula and areas of Georgia, Alabama and…
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Another great map I found this week describes the spatial pattern of light pollution across the US (there are also maps for other countries available online). This map was described in an article in The Week magazine. The US map below shows the amount of light pollution across the US. The areas in green are…
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As a climatologist and geographer I am always fascinated by the variety of maps that are available. You can measure the “climate” of many things, not just the weather. This week Matt Daniel, meteorologist at WMAZ in Macon, posted this map of the most active time for deer movement across Georgia from the Georgia Wildlife…
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Rome Ethredge posted an article from Dr. Lenny Wells, UGA Extension Horticulturist, on the start of the pecan harvest this year in Georgia. This year’s crop looks to be one of the best we have had in the past several years and was aided by dry conditions in June which helped prevent scab in the…