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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that there were minor improvements in drought across most of the region this week based on rainfall that occurred before Tuesday morning. It is likely that additional improvements may be seen on next week’s map from rain that fell after the cutoff time. Drought got worse in…
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Here is another very useful post for someone who wants more weather information before they plan a trip. It was written by Alicia Wasula of STM Weather and is available at https://www.stmweather.com/blog/how-to-plan-a-trip-like-a-meteorologist. It provides a lot of resources for looking at the likely weather conditions in advance for packing purposes as well as deciding what…
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The latest 7 day QPF map for the US shows that there will be quite a difference in rain amount for the next three days over the Southeast. Florida and the adjacent areas of Alabama and Georgia will see a significant amount of rain over the next three days as a front stalled over the…
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With all of the droughts and floods that are currently going on across the US, it is not surprising that farmers are thinking more about water than they have for some time. The Farm Press published a recent article in which some farmers described what water meant to them, including a farmer from southern Georgia.
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The New York Times published this article last week about how the warming temperature trend across the globe is changing what El Nino looks like. We know that El Nino and La Nina have been natural parts of the atmosphere-ocean climate pattern on Earth for thousands of years and likely much longer. But as the…
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NOAA’s climate summary for April 2026 shows that across the Lower 48 states, the temperature was well above normal. Precipitation varied quite a bit across the country but in the Southeast, it was drier than normal everywhere except a small portion of Florida’s East Coast and northern Alabama. The warm and dry conditions contributed to…
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released earlier today, shows that for Georgia and South Carolina, there were no changes from last week. There was rain after the cutoff date of Tuesday morning, so it is likely there will be more changes next week when the next map comes out. Alabama saw a large area of…
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