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The North Carolina State Climate Office posted their latest monthly climate summary for March 2023 on their blog site earlier this week. You can find it at the link below. Overall, they were quite a bit drier than normal, so it is not surprising that drought expanded across the eastern part of the state. A…
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What a miserable day Saturday was for a large part of the region! It rained all day in Athens starting just after my CoCoRaHS observation at 7 am, and they finally called off the Masters Tournament in Augusta shortly after 3 pm after a sodden end to the second round and start of the 3rd…
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Forage production in Georgia has been struggling in recent years, according to this report in the Farm Monitor, due to a combination of high input costs and tough weather. According to the article, recent back-to-back bad years have resulted in depletion of hay stocks, leaving farmers short. There is nothing left for a rainy day,…
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The National Hurricane Center’s final report on Hurricane Ian was released earlier this week. It shows that for a short time before landfall it reached category 5, one of just a few hurricanes to do so. In the past, conventional wisdom has said that hurricanes generally weaken as they get close to land due to…
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Earlier this week, Scientific American published a story that highlights the Southeast’s outsized vulnerability to climate change, according to a new index created by the Environmental Defense Fund and Texas A&M University that analyzes climate impacts and neighborhood conditions such as poverty and health. It’s not necessarily that the climate changes are going to be…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows a slow expansion of drought over northern parts of the region in the last week. There was a slight improvement in Alabama with the removal of a sliver of moderate (D1) drought and reductions in drought in Georgia. South Carolina saw an expansion in abnormally dry conditions but…
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A recent report published in the scientific journal Nature and described here by BBC indicates that as the globe continues to warm and the Antarctic Ice Sheet melts rapidly, the infusion of fresh meltwater into the ocean could cause large changes in the large-scale ocean circulation that transports heat, salt, and nutrients around the world.…