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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/
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After some nice warm and sunny days, a blast of winter air will be returning to the Southeast by Thursday and will last for several days. The wind map below shows the push of frigid air into the region from Canada. You can see it in action at https://hint.fm/wind/ or the full global version at https://earth.nullschool.net/.…
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A new study to be published in Geophysical Research Letters and described yesterday in National Geographic News indicates that smoke drifting north from burning farmlands in Central America may have enhanced the atmospheric instability on April 27, 2011, increasing the severity of already extreme tornadoes. A computer model which simulated the movement of these black…
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We’ve been watching the Eastern Pacific Ocean for almost a year, waiting for the onset of El Nino. In the Southeast, El Nino occurrences are related to cool and wet winters and decreased tropical storm activity, so when one occurs we have some extra knowledge about how the weather is likely to behave for the…