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November 2014 was one of the top five coldest Novembers on record for many stations across Georgia. Statewide, this is also likely to be in the top five coldest Novembers on record, although a final value has not yet been determined as observations continue to come in. Precipitation across the state ranged from well above…
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NOAA’s website Climate.gov has just released a short video describing how one Alabama farmer uses climate forecasts to improve his farm operation. Their blurb and the links to two versions of the video are below: “Alabama grower Myron Johnson talks about how learning to use seasonal outlooks for rain and temperature has made his operation…
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I’ve been getting upwards of 50 or more spam messages a day on this blog in spite of using Captcha and other devices so I am going to turn off comments for the time being. Please feel free to email blog-related comments directly to me at pknox @ uga.edu. Sorry for this inconvenience but it…
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A Time magazine article describes some of the changes that have been seen in recent years with snowshoe hares, wolverines, flying foxes, bats, and other wild mammals as climate has warmed and changed patterns of snow and humidity as well as temperature. In the future this may affect the range of some of these wild…
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December 1 marks the beginning of meteorological winter. After one of the coldest Novembers in recent memory, the beginning of December should bring quite a change to the Southeast. The weather patterns are starting to show signs of the expected El Nino signal, and most of the US should see temperatures above normal for the…
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Climate summaries for Florida and North Carolina are now available online. Florida North Carolina
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November 30 marks the end of the hurricane season in the North Atlantic Ocean. The map below summarizes all of the storm paths this year. Only one storm hit the US: Hurricane Arthur over the 4th of July weekend. The lack of tropical systems this year was one of the main reasons for the development…