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What happens after a hurricane comes through and flattens your community? First you rescue what you can, then you start to determine how to recover and move on. But for those who remain at the devastated location, they often have to rebuild under updated building codes that are much more expensive to engineer, and many…
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The latest ENSO advisory, released on October 13 by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, shows that La Nina continues to be firmly in place. It is likely to continue through the winter and into spring before ENSO returns to neutral conditions. You can read more at https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml.
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Since we are halfway through October, let’s take a quick look at the month so far. The temperature has been cooler than normal across the region, but especially in Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. If you go to the High Plains Regional Climate center ACIS maps at https://hprcc.unl.edu/maps.php?maps=ACISClimateMaps, you can see that daytime high temperatures…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of our region will experience no rain in the next week. A strong cold front will move through the area over the weekend into early next week and drop some rain in Virginia and North Carolina, and southern Florida may see a little rain towards the end…
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NOAA released their monthly climate summary for the earth as a whole today for September 2022. It shows that the monthly temperature tied for the 5th warmest on record. North America had its warmest September ever. The Southeast was the only place in the United States that was near normal in temperature–most areas were much…
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If you love to look at pictures of clouds or want to know what kind of cloud or optical phenomenon you are seeing in the sky, this new cloud library is for you! The Cloud Appreciation Society has launched a new cloud library at https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-library/ that shows amazing pictures of different cloud types as well…
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A cold front moving through the region this week has brought rain and cooler temperatures to the Southeast the past few days. A second, stronger cold front is expected this weekend, and that will usher in even colder and drier air by Tuesday morning. As the cold air settles in, it could get even colder…