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UPDATE: Recording and slides available at Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar: May 23, 2023 | Drought.gov.Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that all of the region will get some rain this week. The heaviest amounts will be in eastern Florida and along the East Coast as a low traverses the area. Areas farthest from the coast will see drier weather by early to mid-week lasting into the weekend. Temperatures will…
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The latest report on peaches in Georgia is not good. The combination of a warm February followed by two frost events in March led to the loss of most peaches in the center part of the state, where the majority of peaches are grown. Clint Thompson reported in Specialty Crop Industry that only about 5%…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that the area of D3 extreme drought on the west coast of Florida expanded somewhat over the week, but most other states just saw minor changes in abnormally dry (D0) conditions. A rainier week ahead in Florida is likely to reduce some of the drought conditions…
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The latest climate outlook for the US was released today by NOAA. The outlook showed that the outlook for June only showed slight leanings in temperature and precipitation in the area around Florida, but the 3-month outlook for June through August shows that for the entire Southeast, temperatures are expected to be warmer than normal,…
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If you are interested in how climate is changing in your state, you should check out the climate summary chapters for each state linked at https://statesummaries.ncics.org/chapter/#maincontent. They provide information on how temperature, precipitation, and other weather variables have changed in each state over time and what additional changes are likely to occur in the next…
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You may have noticed I’ve been posting less often than normal this week. I’ve been busy this week attending the 2023 Georgia Climate Conference in Athens that was organized by the Georgia Climate Project. This meeting of over 500 university and government scientists, students, policymakers, business people, and social scientists discussed how the changes we…
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