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Tuesday, January 11, 2021 at 10 am ET/9 am CT Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers…
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There have been a lot of changes in how we work, shop, and travel since the pandemic started to shut things down in March 2020, almost two years ago. You might wonder whether some of these changes have affected the atmosphere and the weather. Here is an interesting story I saw today about a recent…
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I am a chapter author for the Southeast chapter of the upcoming 5th National Climate Assessment. We are now taking public comments on the chapter outlines. I encourage you to view the outlines for the Southeast chapter as well as the Agriculture chapter and any others that may be related to your work and submit…
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The latest QPF map shows that rain in the western part of the region will see some pretty good rains this week. The rest of the region will see less than normal, which could affect the drought depiction on next week’s map. Most of the rain will fall in the next couple of days as…
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Climate.org has taken a look at the climate conditions that helped lead up to the fires in Colorado a week or so ago. The area started unusually wet, which allowed the grass to grow lush and tall. Then a drought came and that region of Colorado ended up in extreme drought. It did not take…
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A good amount of rain fell in the Carolinas and Virginia this past week. This resulted in a significant decrease in dry conditions, including a big decrease in severe (D2) drought. Most of the abnormally dry (D0) conditions were removed from Georgia. Very small increases in moderate (D1) drought were seen in Alabama and a…
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A new study published in Nature Geoscience indicates that in a warmer climate, the latitudes at which hurricanes can form are expected to expand, so that in the future tropical storms and hurricanes may be able to form farther north than they do now. This is based in part on the expansion of 80 F…