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I often get asked how the number of chill hours in Georgia is changing over time. Here is a great article written by Chunxian Chen from the Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Lab in Byron, GA, in Growing Produce that answers that question. The author shows that, as expected, the number of chill hours…
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You probably have not heard much about the two tropical systems in the Atlantic over the last few days. I took a look tonight and found that as of this afternoon Bret had disintegrated and was no longer considered a tropical depression. At the moment the remains are drifting south but there is some chance…
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The rain this week should be fairly moderate across the region, but the highest amounts are likely to fall in Virginia and North Carolina where drought has been slowly expanding. This should help halt or reverse that trend. The heaviest rains will fall over the next few days, with drier conditions mid-week before some showers…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that there was a small decrease in drought coverage in the southern part of the region, while drought expanded slightly in northern states of our region. The biggest improvement was in Florida, which experienced quite a bit of rain in the last week. Drought expanded in northern Alabama…
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Meteorologists mostly study weather on the Earth, but there are planetary scientists who also study the atmosphere on other planets. In the past, this blog has posted pictures of a dust devil and cirrus clouds on Mars. Earlier this week, on June 15, 2023, NASA released this stunning image of a lightning bolt in Jupiter’s atmosphere. NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
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One of the amazing things about the weather in the Southeast the past week or two is the amount of severe weather that we have seen in a month that usually does not have much. Especially notable has been the amount of large hail, which has caused severe damage to cotton, vegetable, and corn crops…
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The latest prediction for TS Bret is that it is expected to continue to move east and is no longer expected to reach hurricane status due to strong wind shear that is already tilting the circulation and weakening it. Most likely it will fizzle somewhere over the Caribbean but could bring some heavy rain and…
Posted in: Tropical weather