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After a mostly dry week and a few scattered showers today, we should see mostly dry conditions for the next few days before a few more showers occur with another cold frontal passage late in the week. Soil moisture is still mostly quite wet from the rain earlier in the season, so mostly farmers are…
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Here’s a great video that describes the extremes we have had this past year by Jeff Masters, who was previously with Weather Underground and is now a meteorologist for Yale Climate Connections. He does a great job describing severe weather events around the world in the past year in this video. You can view it…
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As expected, today NOAA issued a La Niña Advisory, indicating that La Niña conditions have developed and are expected to continue with an 87% chance of La Niña in December 2021- February 2022. We’ve been expecting this for a while, but it takes several months after signs start to appear before one is officially declared.…
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The latest monthly climate summary for September 2021 was released today by NOAA. It shows that for the earth as a whole, this past September was the 5th warmest since records began in 1880. Almost everywhere was above normal but the Southeast was near the long-term average due to wet and cloudy conditions, and parts…
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Droughts are often categorized as ‘flash’ droughts when they develop or intensify in a matter of weeks (though defining flash droughts continues to be an area of active debate). The National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the National Weather Service (NWS) held a series of three webinars to help climate professionals and operational service providers…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows very slight changes to abnormally dry (D0) conditions around the US this week, with South Carolina seeing a slight increase in area and North Carolina and Virginia seeing a small reduction. In Puerto Rico, the moderate drought (D1) also decreased slightly. Not much rain is expected in…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has a new map product that allows you to plot maps of trends in temperature and precipitation over selected time periods across North Carolina and the Southeast. The map shows positive and negative trends for individual stations across a time period you choose and tells you if the trend…