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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that all of the states with abnormally dry conditions (D0) last week have experienced improvements that reduced dry levels. In Alabama, all dry conditions are now eliminated and in other states, they now cover less area. In Florida, drought conditions were slightly decreased from last week. Puerto Rico…
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Many of our weekends this spring have been wet, and this coming holiday weekend is sadly no exception for the East Coast. A coastal low is predicted to form just off the coast of South Carolina and spin around for much of the weekend. That will bring rain to coastal areas over the weekend and…
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The Land-Grant Press of Clemson Extension has a new publication on historical floods in South Carolina. It provides descriptions of different types of floods and a description of several historical events that have caused significant flooding in the state. While the historical events are focused on South Carolina, much of the background information is more…
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A new journal article on forecasts of drought at extended time scales in the Western US has just been released by Water Resources Research. It discusses the use of machine learning to predict drought in the western half of the country at spatial scales as small as 4 km in size up to three months…
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In the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar today, Jeff Dobur from the NWS Southeast River Forecast Center posted this graphic showing how the weekly distribution of tropical storms looked for three subregions of the Southeast. The three regions are the Florida Peninsula, the Carolinas, and the Alabama-Florida Panhandle-Georgia region. As you can see from the graphic…
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Project Drawdown provides many practical solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are already available and financially viable. Since the best way to reduce the future impacts of climate change is to prevent greenhouse emissions from occurring in the first place, we can all use these solutions do our part. A number of these solutions…
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This spring we are still seeing the fallout of the warm February followed by two frosts on berry production in the Southeast. There were significant losses in some blueberry areas, although many others are loaded with berries this year. The worst hit were the early-blooming varieties, which were most susceptible to the protracted cold after…