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A recent satellite-derived image from NASA published this week shows the deviation of vegetation from average “greenness”. This is a measure of how healthy and abundant the vegetation is at this point in time. You can see the big red area over the Southeast indicating that vegetation is behind normal conditions, or “less green” than…
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With all the rain we have had lately, there have been many negative impacts on crops, both in the Southeast and in other parts of the country. Here are a few of the stories I have seen. Rome Ethredge of Seminole County E News pointed out that not only did the rains make it hard…
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The latest National Drought Monitor was released today and shows that due to the heavy rains that have fallen across most of the Southeast, most of the drought in Alabama and all of Georgia was eliminated, with just a small patch of moderate drought remaining in southeast Alabama. Some residual abnormally dry conditions remain but are…
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Jeff Masters of Weather Underground posted a new blog this week noting that measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere show that for the first time in the last 800,000 years the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached 404 parts per million. You can read his post here. Carbon dioxide has been measured directly…
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The National Weather Service has announced that they will be providing a new interactive map service to highlight impacts from hurricanes this tropical season. The site is still under development, but they hope to have it running by June 1, the start of the tropical season in the Atlantic, although it could be delayed. The…
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Can you believe that Earth Day has been around for 45 years? In honor of the 45th annual Earth Day, a couple of postings from the Weather Underground blog. First, a timeline of Earth Day over time at https://wunderground.com/earth-day/earth-day-history/. Second, a link to their special page which has collected stories about Earth Day over the years…
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All my meteorologist friends were talking about the picture of four rainbows captured by Amanda Curtis while she was waiting for a train on Long Island earlier. Some media outlets called it a quadruple rainbow, but after looking at the optics, it was determine instead to the a double rainbow accompanied by a double reflected…