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Two cyclones (or hurricanes, as they are known in the Atlantic) in the western Pacific Ocean may be combining forces to enhance the development of a budding El Nino. The circulation around Bavi in the Northern Hemisphere is counterclockwise, while the circulation around Pam in the Southern Hemisphere is clockwise, leading to enhanced winds from…
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The National Weather Service has a good graphical forecast tool for hourly weather variables available on their web sites. You can get instructions for how to get one for your location at https://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=hourlyweathergraph. The forecast has a number of parameters to choose from, including temperature, wind, humidity, rain and other forms of precipitation, thunder, and a variety of…
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After today’s weather system moves off to the east, most of the week should be dry. The next chance for rain comes late in the week starting in the western portions on Thursday and moving east with time. Most areas will receive about half an inch except for the west coast of the Florida peninsula,…
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Sorghum, also known as milo, was one of the few crops that survived the blistering 2012 drought in the Midwest. A story this week on Yahoo News highlighted the grain, which is also gluten-free and is used for animal feed and methanol in the US but is a subsistence crop in sub-Saharan Africa. Sorghum is increasingly…
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The latest newsletter of the Southeast Climate Consortium is now available on their website here. The SECC is one of the groups that helps support this blog and is a multi-university consortium of scientists interested in looking at climate variability, water and agriculture in the Southeast. The newsletter this month features our new web page…
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If you’ve ever been asked about how many tornadoes passed through a particular county, or other questions related to tornado statistics, you might find this tornado track tool useful. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center has an interactive tool which allows you to map historical tornado tracks from 1950-2013 across the US, including the Southeast. You…
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Farmers are starting to plant corn in southern Georgia and other areas of the Southeast. Rome Ethredge, in the Seminole Crop E News blog (link), pointed out that corn needs about 100 GDD to emerge from seed to seedling, and that areas in his county are reaching that now. In fact, in spite of the…