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The National Hurricane Center has started issuing advisories on the old Investigation 91 in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, now identified as a tropical depression with a closed center. This system is not expected to make landfall. Investigation 92 is still east of Florida and moving west, but so far has not developed to the…
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Previous blog postings have provided links to quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) maps from the Climate Prediction Center. Here is another source that is geared towards the Southeast from the NWS Southeast River Forecast Center (https://www.srh.noaa.gov/serfc/?n=qpfpage). Note that the SERFC maps only cover the next 48 hours in 6-hour increments so they are more suitable for…
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The latest newsletter from UGA’s Stripling Irrigation Park (available at https://striplingpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2014-Sept-Newsletter.pdf has some great comments on how the wet spring and dry summer have affected cotton and peanuts around the area, particularly in southwest Georgia. Wes Porter, the UGA irrigation specialist, has some good comments about irrigation needs for cotton and peanuts as the seasons…
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Currently there are two active areas of investigation out in the Atlantic Ocean. Investigation 91 is far out in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the predicted movement of this system will keep it well away from the Southeast. Investigation 92 is east of the Florida coast and is expected to move westward over time, possibly…
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The evaporative stress index is a way of measuring rates of evapotranspiration from plants and the ground using satellite data. The higher the rates of water use, the more negative the evaporative stress index. The two maps below show the maps for September 2 and September 8. You can see that on September 2,…
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Keith Carson wrote an entertaining article on his blog about seasonal forecasts. You can read it here. After a satire site printed a map showing an outlook for a very cold winter in the East that went viral, meteorologists spent a lot of time shooting down the “made-up” forecast. Keith talks about this and how…
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The National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, NE, has just released their monthly compendium of stories about drought across the US. Many of these stories focus on the drought in California but other areas are also included. You can read this newsletter and subscribe to it at https://drought.unl.edu/NewsOutreach/MonthlySummary/August2014DroughtandImpactSummary.aspx