While the tropical season rolls on and the rain from the remains of TS Beta are moving through parts of the Southeast today, extension agents and farmers are still assessing the damage from powerful storm Sally, which dropped up to 30 inches of rain in some locations and blasted coastal…
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With a La Nina advisory in effect, that means we can expect to see several months of La Nina conditions across the Southeast, although the strength of the signal will depend on how strong and how long the La Nina is. Here is a good general discussion on the likely…
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None of the Southeast is currently in drought due to the wet conditions we have experienced for a lot of the past few months. There are still a few patches of abnormally dry (D0) conditions in Alabama, Georgia, and extreme southern South Carolina. The areas of D0 in AL and…
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While we can’t predict exact temperatures more than a week out, we are starting to get a hint from medium-range weather models that a significant outbreak of cold air will move into the Southeast early in October. In particular, the nights of October 2-4 could see temperatures into the 30’s…
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The Charleston Post and Courier has been running a series of informative stories about how sea level rise is affecting their city. Their impacts are similar to what other coastal cities can expect to experience over the next few decades, some sooner than others. There are links in these stories…
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Brian Brettschneider (@climatologist49) posted a map on Twitter today which shows how many months of the year have seen a trend towards warmer temperatures for long-term historical weather stations over the last 30 years. The map is based on 2,844 stations in the GHCN-M database. Of those, only 17 stations…
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Reports of impacts of Sally on agriculture in the Southeast continue to come in. While the rain from Sally was mostly beneficial in Georgia, softening soils ahead of peanut digging and providing moisture to dry pastures, it caused more damage in coastal Florida where extreme winds and rain devastated farm…
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