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All of the rain that we have been having in the Southeast has caused a number of impacts. In addition to increasing the likelihood of fungal diseases and making it hard to get into the fields, it is also affecting the quality of crops like corn. This article and video from The Scoop discusses how…
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In The Garden Professors blog this week, John Porter of Nebraska Extension posts an article describing how water provides both necessary moisture and a contributor to diseases that can hurt plant growth, and in the worst cases, kill the plant completely. The article describes how water in the atmosphere contributes to the development of fungal…
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While we here in the Southeast have been the beneficiaries of the current atmospheric wave pattern and its cooler temperatures, our friends in the western US have had the bad end of the stick. Not only are they seeing an extended and extreme drought, but they have also been experiencing record-setting high temperatures that are…
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Most of the region will see rain amounts that are close to the weekly average. The majority of the rain will fall before Monday night except in south Florida, which will see rain all week. The driest area will be northern Virginia. Daily scattered showers will fall across the area but most will be relatively…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center put out their monthly and 3-month climate predictions today. The monthly forecast for August shows that some parts of the region lean slightly towards warmer than normal conditions, while other parts lean towards wetter than normal conditions. The August through October period shows a stronger tendency towards warmer and wetter conditions…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that abnormally dry (D0) conditions in Virginia, North and South Carolina have contracted due to recent rains from TS Elsa and frontal activity. The small area of D0 in southern Florida did not change. Abnormally dry conditions in Puerto Rico also shrunk but the area of moderate…
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While Tropical Storm Elsa was not a strong storm as it came through the Southeast, it did have some strong winds and torrential rainfall. The rain in many areas fell on soil that was already saturated, especially in northern Florida where a stalled front had dropped several inches of rain just a few days before.…