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The monthly climate summary for North Carolina for April 2023 is now available from the North Carolina State Climate Office. It includes a discussion of the very wet April they had and how it reduced drought in the state. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2023/05/wet-weekends-continue-in-a-shower-soaked-april/.
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As the global temperature warms up in the future, we can expect to also see changes in related variables like degree days, growing season length, and plant hardiness zones, which are tied to minimum temperatures. The Washington Post has an interesting map that compares the expected plant hardiness zones across the United States from the…
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Recent rains have put quite a dent in the Southeast drought this week. All drought has been removed from Alabama and Georgia and has decreased in Virginia and Florida, while North Carolina is free of all dry conditions and only a lingering area of abnormally dry (D0) conditions remains in South Carolina. Puerto Rico also…
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According to Clint Thompson of Specialty Crop Industry, the Georgia peach harvest this year is going to be very small compared to normal. This is due to the combination of unusually warm temperatures in winter, which allowed the peach trees to bloom much earlier than usual, and two devastating frosts in mid-March which destroyed a…
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The updated outlook for May 2023, issued on April 30, indicates that a lot of the Southeast is leaning towards cooler than normal conditions, although some areas show no tendency and southern Florida is leaning towards warmer than normal conditions. Rainfall is expected to be wetter than normal across the southern part of the region.…
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April 2023 was wetter than normal over a lot of the region. Temperature varied a lot, with the warmest temperatures in Florida and along the coast and the coolest temperatures were in Alabama, northern Georgia and western South Carolina. The areas that were the warmest generally corresponded with the areas in drought. The extreme rain…
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Do you ever get a question about climate that you can’t answer? There are many resources available across the country that you can use to help. The US Climate Resilience Toolkit has a page with many links devoted to identifying folks who can help you find answers to your climate-related questions. I can help too!…