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National Public Radio broadcast a story today about problems some California citizens are having with their wells, which they blame on pumping at farms close to their houses. These people, many of them retirees or farm workers on limited incomes living in areas not served by public water supplies, depend on their wells to provide…
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The 7-day QPF map shows that most of the Southeast is expected to get no rain for the next week. The only exception is the far south of the Florida peninsula, including the Keys. This area is expected to be affected by a low which is organizing in the Bay of Campeche and is forecast…
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The National Weather Service radar-estimated precipitation for the month of October so far has been feast or famine across Georgia. The northern and western portions of the state have received up to 400 percent of normal in the far northwest, while east central Georgia has received 25 percent or less of its normal October rainfall.…
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Since it is fall, it is not surprising that stories about this year’s harvest are filling agricultural newsletters. Many of those stories link this year’s harvest conditions to the climate of the past growing season. Rome Ethredge noted in his Seminole Crop News blog that cotton harvest is well underway. The crop looks pretty good…
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Al Dutcher, the Nebraska State Climatologist and a self-proclaimed conservative, as well as other Nebraska scientists, have been tasked by their state to do a study of changes in climate over time and its impact on agriculture and other economic drivers of the state. However, because of an amendment put into the funding bill by…
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Dr. Marshall Shepherd, an atmospheric science professor at UGA, published a guest posting on the Capital Weather Gang blog at the Washington Post on the recent Ebola outbreak and what meteorologists have learned from challenges like Superstorm Sandy. If you deal with weather or other emergencies, you may be interested in his commentary, which can…
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Yesterday NOAA issued their latest winter weather outlook. The story is here and the maps are below. Their forecast is based on the likely (67 percent chance) development of a weak El Nino in the next two months which would steer the subtropical jet stream across southern Georgia and Alabama and Florida. While an El…