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A new research study shows that flash droughts are becoming more likely across the world, causing negative impacts on agriculture and food production everywhere. And it’s not just agriculture but energy production and water supplies that can also be at risk. Some methods like precision agriculture and improved temperature and precipitation forecasts can help farmers…
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Those of you who are located in the County Warning Area for the Atlanta National Weather Service Office may be interested in trying out this new GIS-based tornado dashboard. You can check it out here. It contains tracks of all tornadoes that have occurred in those counties since 1950. The dashboard allows you to filter…
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NOAA released their 2023 Atlantic hurricane outlook last week and it showed that this season is likely to have fewer named storms than the previous few years. But those statistics don’t say anything about where any storms that do form might go. The Weather Channel posted a story this weekend looking at the historical paths…
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Earlier this month the Washington Post published an article describing the economic costs of El Nino based on research published in Science magazine. The research showed that the most recent strong El Ninos cost the global economy on the order of $4 trillion in losses to agriculture and other sectors of the economy. Since we…
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There will be several rain-producing weather systems bring rain to parts of the Southeast, but a few areas will not see any rain at all. Over this weekend, the strong low off the East Coast is bringing heavy rain to parts of the Carolinas, with some spill-over into eastern Georgia. That will move out early…
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A new computer modeling study links unusual cooling due to the Australian wildfires in 2019 to our recent triple-dip La Nina, which ended this spring. The new modeling study, published today in Science Advances, show that the vast clouds of aerosols from the fires, which scorched large areas of Australia, may have blocked sunlight, causing…
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While we all know about lightning on Earth, did you know that Jupiter also has lightning? It was first observed over 40 years ago by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. Recent observations have shown that lightning on Jupiter behaves very much like lightning on earth with step-wise progression of the strokes. They determined this from radio…