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If you missed the regular monthly Southeast Climate Update Webinar, you can see a recap of the webinar at https://www.drought.gov/drought-status-updates/southeast-climate-update-and-webinar-recap-5. A recording of the webinar is also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzO0Rh8Q2Q. The next webinar will be held on August 10 at 10 AM ET. You can use the first link above to get more…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the globe was released today by NOAA. It showed that this June 2021 was the fifth warmest since records began in 1880. The year to date is the 8th warmest on record. You can read the highlights at https://www.noaa.gov/news/june-2021-was-5th-warmest-june-on-record-for-globe and the statistics at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202106.
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While this is the main blog I write, I also contribute once a month to The Garden Professors blog, dedicated to the use of science in tackling problems in home gardens. Here is an interesting article written last year by one of our other contributors, John Porter, on the impact of high temperatures on the…
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Our local National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, GA, has produced a unique long-range forecast for this week, written all in Haiku. I appreciate their creativity in what is a very boring forecast situation, and I think they have done a great job showing the “rinse and repeat” nature of our daily thunderstorms (one…
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If you are tired of thinking about hot weather, you might be interested in reading this new report on the extreme weather that hit the central US and especially Texas in February 2021. It is published by the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) and focuses on the weather in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas,…
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The monthly climate summary for the US was released by NOAA late last week. The summary showed that due to extraordinary heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and in the Northeast, the average temperature for the 48 contiguous states was 72.6 F. That is 4.2 degrees above normal and higher than the previous record June…
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There have been a lot of stories about heat and drought across the world over the last couple of weeks. Here are some of the ones that I thought were the most interesting. The Guardian: In California’s interior, there’s no escape from the desperate heat: ‘Why are we even here?’ Idaho Statesman: Amid drought, thousands…