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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension has produced a series of short videos on prescribed burns called “Living with Texas Fire”. Even though it is focused on Texas, a lot of the information provided in the series is useful to anyone who is considering doing a prescribed burn. Of course, you will need to check your local…
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In this series on sources of climate and weather information, we’ve looked at the state climatologists and the National Climate Data Center (NCDC–now part of NCEI, the National Centers for Environmental Information) so far. In between these two levels of data sources are the regional climate centers, also part of NOAA. The map of regional…
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Texas is the big winner in this coming week’s rain contest, with the potential for as much as 10 inches of rain possible over parts of the state. Here in the Southeast, most areas will receive less than an inch of rain except for areas near TS Ana in the eastern Carolinas. Coupled with the…
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As of 5 am this morning, the National Hurricane Center announced that Ana has made the transition from subtropical to tropical storm with the development of convection close to the center and upper level outflow. No change in the predicted impacts are expected. Tropical storm warnings are up along the South and North Carolina coasts…
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With the exception of flooding rains at a few locations in Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, most of the country was very dry this week. The dry conditions did allow planting of corn and other crops in the Midwest to advance significantly from last week. However, the dry conditions have caused problems for winter wheat, which…
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The Packer is running a story today on this year’s Vidalia onion harvest and the impacts of the recent rainy weather on the crop. In the story they describe conflicting reports on the state of the onion crop due to the weather. The USDA is reporting that recent rains “curtailed harvest” and contributed to some crop…
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I’ve seen some interesting stories about atmospheric optical effects lately. Here are a couple you might be interested in reading. NOVA on Public Broadcasting had a good story about mirages and seeing the city of Chicago appear upside down over a cold Lake Michigan (link). EarthSky also had an interesting article about why the sky…