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The latest issue of the Southeast Climate Consortium newsletter is now available here. The Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC) is a group of scientists from a number of universities around the Southeast who study aspects of climate, agriculture and water around the region. This month the newsletter highlights the Tri-State Row Crop group workshop held earlier…
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The Climate Prediction Center and numerous other groups are warning of a potential winter storm which is expected to impact parts of the Southeast early next week. The forecast models are in agreement that a significant winter storm is likely to occur, although they are still evolving on which areas will experience snow and which…
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The Southeast as a whole has been cool and relatively dry for the month of February so far. The notable exception is the Florida Peninsula, which is much wetter than average due to the passage of numerous storms across the area so far this month. The dry conditions have slightly expanded the area of the…
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A new NASA study this week shows the potential impacts of the warming climate on the occurrence of “megadroughts”, which are multi-year extreme droughts that have historically affected areas like California and the central part of the US. (Tree ring analysis has shown that the Southeast has also experienced megadroughts in the last 500 years.)…
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The National Weather Service has just announced a new “experimental” forecast app for smartphones that may make it easier to make short-term decisions on what to do around the farm and when to do it. This app provides a variety of weather-related information in an easy to use format which adapts to your screen size.…
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David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, posted a new blog entry today on the blog site for the Southeast Innovative Farming Team (SIFT). Here is the link. In the post he discusses the cold weather that we expect for the rest of February and the winter to date. Looks like the groundhog was right–winter is…
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After my post earlier this week about atmospheric rivers, I was pleased to see that the blog of EDEN (Extension Disaster Education Network) also posted a story on atmospheric rivers, also know as the “Pineapple Express”. You can read their blog posting and view a neat animation at https://blogs.extension.org/edenotes/2015/02/11/weather-wednesday-the-pineapple-express/