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The QPF maps for the US show that the Southeast has two chances for rain in the coming week. Both of them have the highest chance of occurring in the northwestern part of the region. The Florida peninsula is not expected to get any rain from these systems. The first shot will come on Monday…
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A new tool from the University of Arizona Climate Science Applications Program displays standardized precipitation index (SPI)values for a range of time scales over time. SPI is a calculated rainfall amount that takes into account the average rainfall and the standard deviation of rainfall over time and puts it in a standard format which can…
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The Animal Agriculture Climate Change blog has posted a new entry describing a presentation by Dr. Marty Matlock from the University of Arkansas in Munich recently. In the presentation Dr. Matlock discusses the need to feed the world in 2050 (not that far in the future!). He then added the requirement of sustainably achieving this…
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By now you’ve all noticed the holiday music on the radio, Christmas ads on TV, and colorful lights in your neighborhoods. That means it is time for the annual question, “What are our chances for a white Christmas this year?” Of course, Christmas Day is still almost two weeks away, beyond the skill of weather…
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Brad Haire posted a story this week in the Southeast Farm Press on the 2014 pecan harvest. You can read the story at https://southeastfarmpress.com/orchard-crops/georgia-s-2014-pecans-smaller-nuts-bigger-price-growing-market The story highlights the impacts of the tough summer weather on the nuts, although it says the weather also helped. Low volumes were related to poor pollination conditions in the spring,…
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The newest weather jargon that is showing up this week in the media is “Pineapple Express.” Even though there is a movie of this name from the past few years, the term has actually been around for a decade or more in meteorology. It refers to a phenomenon called an “atmospheric river”, which is a…
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The CoCoRaHS network (Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network) is a group of volunteer precipitation observers across the US (and a few in Canada) that take daily precipitation readings using a simple rain gauge and reporting online using a computer or smartphone app. I am a regional coordinator for this program, which has been…