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As a follow-up to a post earlier this week, here is some more information about our station in Byromville. The National Weather Service did a post-storm survey of the location and found that due to the wind speed of 129.3 mph measured on our station along with damage to grain bins near the site, this…
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The first official outlook for the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was released today by the folks at Colorado State University. It shows that due to the continued presence of La Nina and the expectation that it will return to neutral by summer but not switch to El Nino, another active hurricane season is expected for…
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Note that this was originally published in the Georgia peanut and cotton newsletters. April is expected to be warmer and drier than usual across most of the Southeast in 2022. This continues the pattern seen in the past few months that was caused by a combination of the current La Niña and the trend towards…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that overall, the area affected by drought in the Southeast remained essentially the same as last week, but the severity of the drought increased in some places. Severe (D2) drought expanded in eastern North Carolina and a new area of severe drought formed in southwestern Florida. Moderate…
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The mid-March freeze in 2022 hit the growers of many crops hard. One of these is Georgia’s production of greens. Clint Thompson posted a story in Specialty Crop Industry talking about how much their crops of turnip and other greens were affected by the low temperatures and brutal winds. You can read it at https://specialtycropindustry.com/march-freeze-wipes-out-georgia-farmers-greens-production/.
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The latest monthly climate summary for March 2022 is now available from the North Carolina State Climaet Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/04/drought-sprouts-at-the-coast-as-spring-takes-root-in-march/.
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If you live in the Southeast, you know that today, April 5, 2022, was a day that had a lot of severe weather action. I watched the radar and our University of Georgia weather network today to keep an eye on what was happening. I noticed in late afternoon that our station southeast of Byromville…