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The skies across Georgia and other parts of the Southeast have been very hazy for the past couple of days due to smoke blowing south from the Canadian wildfires, although a lot of it is not reaching the surface but staying aloft. You can definitely see it in the gray skies, orange sun at sunset,…
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Politico has an interesting story this week about how many people in southwestern Florida have been priced out of rebuilding their homes lost to Hurricane Ian last year. The regulations in Florida require that if a house is destroyed, it has to be rebuilt to current safety standards, which is often much more expensive than…
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As the temperature rises with this week’s heat wave, humans and animals both experience discomfort and potential harm from heat stress and other heat diseases. For livestock like cattle, the heat makes them less likely to want to eat, reducing weight gain and milk production. Prolonged periods of heat can reduce fertility in cows, further…
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Earlier this weekend Subtropical Storm Don formed in the central Atlantic far from land and between Bermuda and the Azores. Don is not expected to make landfall but will slowly curve around. It will decrease to a depression but could slightlu restrengthen to a storm again later this week.
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that there will be only scattered chances of rain this week as high pressure builds up a dome of hot air over much of the region. Temperatures will be quite warm and only a few scattered storms will provide relief in the form of showers. Week 2 has a…
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The latest ENSO outlook shows that El Nino is occurring and is expected to continue through at least spring 2024, with at least a 90% chance of lasting through the Northern Hemisphere winter. There is an 81 percent chance it will be a moderate to strong El Nino through the November through January period. You…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought and abnormally dry conditions have decreased across the northern part of the region but a new area of severe (D2) drought was added to the West Coast of Florida near and south of Tampa as they have been largely missed by recent rains and have experienced…
Posted in: Drought