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The latest monthly climate outlook from NOAA’s Climate Prediction was released earlier this week. It shows that all of the Southeast except the southern tip of Florida has an enhanced chance of warmer than normal conditions for October. Rainfall is listed as equal chances of wetter, drier, and normal conditions, which means there is no…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows a big reduction in abnormally dry (D0) conditions in Virginia and the Carolinas in the last week. This is due to recent rain events across the region. There will be dry conditions for a few more days before rain returns, but it should not be enough…
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A “cut-off” low is an area of low pressure in the atmosphere separated or cut off from the main atmospheric circulation. That means it does not feel the steering effects of the westerly winds and sits and spins in one spot for several days until something comes to push it out. We get cut-off lows…
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If you follow tropical weather at all, you are probably not surprised to know that the number of landfalling hurricanes and tropical storms we have had the last few years has been very high, and of course we have had to deal with the impacts of those storms, ranging from extreme winds to significant storm…
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Estimating damage following a major hurricane can be difficult, as many extension agents in the Southeast know after the spate of hurricanes and tropical storms that have traveled across the region in the last five years or so. Here is a story from Morning Ag Clips that describes preliminary agricultural damage to Louisiana from Hurricane…
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Now that we are in fall, we can expect to see more frequent formation of fog, especially in the mornings and late in the day as the air cools down to a temperature that allows water vapor to condense. Earth Networks has a new video and web page that gives a good description of how…
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At our UGA cotton field day today, someone mentioned to me that they are having trouble doing degree day calculations that depend on specific bases for different crops, diseases, or insect development. You can see a list of bases for a variety of crops from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center here. But it is not…