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We are halfway through February 2022, so it’s time to take a quick look at how the month is shaking out climatologically so far. For most of the Southeast, temperatures have been above normal. The exceptions are parts of western Alabama, southern Georgia, and most of Florida. Precipitation has been mostly lower than normal other…
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Today NOAA released their monthly summary for the global climate for January 2022. It shows that this past January was the 6th warmest since global records began in 1880. The Southeast was relatively close to average compared to many other parts of the globe. It would have been much warmer except for the extensive band…
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In spite of the cold temperatures that occurred as far south as central Florida on January 30, most fruit growers experienced less severe conditions than they expected. Here is a story about Florida strawberry growers and how they weathered the cold conditions at ‘Resilient’ Strawberry Growers Continue Season Following Freeze – Specialty Crop Industry.
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I spend a lot of time looking at the potential impacts of future climate on the Southeast. But I also read about what is happening in other parts of the world. Here is an interesting story from Alaska about how getting rain on top of snow is affecting the ecosystem, for example, making it harder…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most parts of the Southeast will get at least an inch of rain except for the Florida Peninsula. For timing, the next few days should be dry for most areas except Virginia and along the immediate coast, with the bulk of the rain falling later in the week…
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Happily, we are not in a drought in most of the Southeast right now, but sooner or later we will go into another one? Will it be this year? Too early to say. But here’s some new research that looks at the impacts of tropical storm rainfall on droughts in the eastern half of the…
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NOAA released their latest ENSO outlook today. It shows that the current La Nina is expected to last through spring and should transition to neutral conditions this summer. Their latest forecast differs somewhat from last month’s in that they have lowered the chances of going into an El Nino later in the year. That means…