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This time of year, many newspapers and magazines post stories about why the leaves change color in the fall. Many of you may already know, but on the off-chance that you are not familiar with the process, here is a good short discussion from Popular Mechanics that describes how weather changes the strength and timing…
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Yahoo News has been running a series of articles on how climate change is affecting different parts of the country. This week they are focusing on our region, the Southeast. In our region, some of the biggest likely impacts of the warming temperatures are more heat waves due to warmer temperatures and higher humidity, stronger…
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Meteorologists are watching the Atlantic this week as an area of low pressure is expected to form north of Hispaniola and move northwestward towards the East Coast of the United States. Whether or not it develops into a named storm, it will bring rain, gusty winds, and flooding sea levels to the East Coast by…
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Drought in England has led to extremely low reservoir levels and concerns about whether they are likely to rise enough to support fruit and vegetable farming next year, according to a recent story in The Guardian. Farmers are considering their crop rotations for next year with an eye to reduced availability of water, and some…
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I’ve been getting quite a few phone calls from Georgia cattle producers noting the very dry conditions have made feeding cattle very difficult right now, with no relief in sight, and some farmers having to cull their cattle because of the lack of feed. Here is a similar story from MyPanhandle.com about cattlefolk down in…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought expanded almost everywhere in the Southeast. The only state that did not see an increase was Alabama. In spite of the expansion, however, I think that it should have been expanded more than it did, with areas of Georgia showing signs of approaching D3 level. However,…
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The latest monthly climate summary is now available from the North Carolina State Climate Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/11/dry-weather-dominates-a-cool-crisp-october/.
Posted in: Climate summaries