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NOAA has released their monthly climate summary for the US for July 2021. You can read the summary of conditions at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202107 or view that and many other national climate reports at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/. The summary shows that Florida and Virginia were the most above average in temperature, with other areas near or slightly cooler than…
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The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued their newest report today, and the news was filled with the disturbing results of the new study today. I am not going to address that today because you can read that from other news sources but did want to mention something associated with it that was overshadowed…
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The latest 5-day tropical outlook for the Atlantic tonight shows two areas of interest. The closer one may track over or near Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and Cuba before approaching the US mainland, most likely as a weak storm. The farther one is less organized and who knows where it will go. There is also another…
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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 may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics…
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Earlier this week I posted a story about snow falling in Brazil for the first time in many years. Accompanying that snow was cold temperatures and frost, which caused a lot of damage in the coffee-growing regions of southern Brazil. The damage was made worse because the coffee plants had already been stressed by drought…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most parts of the region will get little rain in the next week, which is sure to make farmers in most areas happy after all the rain we have been seeing. The wettest area will be the Florida peninsula and the Virginia and North Carolina coasts, especially in…
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In the past few years, the Southeast has experienced two different “flash” droughts (2016-2017 and 2019) These droughts are caused by a combination of almost complete lack of rain and hotter than usual temperatures. The droughts come on quickly and sometime disappear quickly too, but may morph into longer-term drought instead. Flash droughts are particularly…
Posted in: Drought