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The Packer posted a story earlier this week about the excellent condition of the sweet potato crop in the Southeast this year. They report that growing conditions in eastern North Carolina were especially favorable, with a wet weather early in the growing season followed by a long period of dry, warm days. North Carolina is…
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The US Geological Survey has a great dashboard for looking at a variety of surface water and groundwater information as well as rainfall and some atmospheric parameters. You can view the dashboard at https://dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov/app/nwd/?aoi=default. I think it even has a tutorial available somewhere on the website, although I have not used it. In the streamflow…
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With the recent severe weather we have had in parts of the country, it is no surprise that many people are having to deal with insurance claims. Here are two recent articles that discuss ways that you can make the process less painful. Also, keep in mind that you will reduce your pain afterwards if…
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Hurricanes like Katrina and Ida (and Michael, Florence, Matthew, Irma, etc.) can cause tremendous damage to infrastructure from floods, storm surge, and high winds. One of the impacts is destruction of the power supply. Even here in Athens, GA, far from the coast. I had friends who lost power for a week with Tropical Storm…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows relatively light rainfall across most of the Southeast this week. The highest rainfall amounts will be in southern Florida and northwestern Alabama. But there is a big mass of disorganized convection in the Caribbean that could form a tropical depression within 5 days, and that has the potential to…
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With the end of August, we have reached the official end of climatological summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Maps of the temperature and precipitation departures show that in general, the precipitation was wetter than normal and the temperature was cooler than normal, although as usual there is quite a bit of variation across the region.…
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The latest monthly and seasonal climate summary for North Carolina for August 2021 is now available at their blog. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2021/09/a-slow-starting-summer-heated-up-in-august/.
Posted in: Climate summaries