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It’s the time of year when I start to get questions about the likelihood of frost in the next week. Fortunately, there is a new online experimental tool available to help producers look ahead to see the likelihood of frost for at least the next six days. It was developed by NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center…
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The harvest of cotton and other Southeastern crops is moving quickly. Some areas have been hit by rains which dampened the cotton, reducing quality and slowing the cotton picking. However, as this story from the Southeast Farm Press makes clear, the weather in North Carolina really cooperated with growers this year, leading to record-setting yields…
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Here is a look at 20 historical droughts in the United States going back several centuries. The list is more focused on the western part of the country, but that is where the longest and most intense droughts were over long time periods. You might be interested in seeing some of the impacts of these…
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With October almost in the books, a quick look shows that it was warmer than normal across the region, especially overnight lows. Precipitation varied, with the western areas generally wetter and the eastern areas generally drier. Forecasts for the first two weeks of November show conditions are likely to be cooler and drier than normal,…
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Even though the Atlantic has been unusually quiet for the last month, overnight they lurched back to life with the development of Subtropical Storm Wanda way out in the Atlantic. Wanda is predicted to gradually gain tropical characteristics over the next day or two and may become a tropical storm at that point before moving…
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The latest 7-day QPF shows almost no rain for the next five days with just a little light rain late in the week. A weak front should come through then, bringing some light rain to the area. Early November should also be quite dry. The long-range models are not showing much chance of frost in…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that an area of moderate (D1) drought has been added to eastern North Carolina due to continuing dry conditions there. The abnormally dry areas in the region also expanded in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia as well as expanding into northeastern Florida. Puerto Rico’s conditions…
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