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The Weather Channel had an interesting story this weekend about two wildfires that burned in the Florida Panhandle last week. The fires were attributed to dry, windy conditions combined with abundant fuel that was composed of downed trees and debris left over from Hurricane Michael in 2018. You may recall that Michael made landfall near…
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The latest monthly climate summary for February 2022 for North Carolina was released earlier this week. You can find it on their blog at Spring Sneaks In and the Coast Dries Out in February – North Carolina State Climate Office (ncsu.edu).
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This week, NOAA announced a new interactive sea-level mapping tool on their Climate.gov page. The tool allows you to use an interactive map to see how sea level has changed over time at a number of sites along the coast. Once you pick one of the locations, it displays a graph showing how sea level…
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Unlike the last couple of weeks, the coming seven days should be a good deal wetter for most of the region with the exception of southern Florida. A front will move into the region by Monday afternoon and progress towards the southeast over the next few days, stalling out near the coast by late in…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that there has been a significant expansion of moderate (D1) drought in most of the region this week, especially in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. This is due to the lack of rain last week and the warm temperatures. Since these conditions are likely to continue…
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March came in so quietly this year that I forgot to remind you all that March 1 is the start of meteorological and climatological spring. Atmospheric scientists use the period from March 1 through May 31 to represent spring rather than the astronomical season because it matches up better with the climate on earth than…
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On March 1, 2022, NOAA’s new geostationary satellite was successfully launched into space. This satellite, currently known as GOES-T, will move into a high orbit 22,000 miles above the surface that moves around the earth at the same rate that the earth rotates, which allows the satellite to continually look at the same part of…
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