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The 7-day QPF for this coming week shows a continuation of the split pattern we have seen over the last couple of weeks. Wet conditions should continue to occur in northern parts of the Southeast, while southern areas, especially southern Florida, will see lower than normal rainfall. This may increase the extent of abnormally dry…
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March 2015 was warmer and drier than normal for most of Georgia. While the warmth helped encourage rapid growth of planted corn and other crops, cold conditions late in the month may have caused some damage to fruit blossoms. The warm and dry conditions also increased soil moisture shortages across the region. In Atlanta, the…
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The USDA’s Southeast Regional Climate Hub (SERCH) has a new web site that you might find interesting. This climate hub will be helping to gather information on climate and management of working lands like agriculture and forestry. They will also link to other groups that provide tools and data on dealing with climate variability and…
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The Washington Post had an intriguing article this week on the role that Arctic soils may play in greenhouse warming. Temperatures in polar regions, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, are increasing much faster than in other parts of the world due to changes in land cover and the switch from snow and ice to bare…
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The climate summary for March 2015 for Florida is now available. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-march-2015.
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center provided a map of the ranking of monthly precipitation anomalies for selected stations in the Southeast using their Perspectives tool this week. The map is shown below. It shows that at numerous stations around the Southeast, the monthly total precipitation in March 2015 was ranked in the top ten driest,…
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If you follow the popular news, you will know that there has been a big story in last couple of weeks contending that public officials in Florida are being prevented from using the words “climate change” in their official communication. Today the Florida Climate Institute issued a statement about this controversy and the concern that…
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