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The North Carolina State Climate Office has produced a Rapid Response post on TS Fred for their blog. It describes how wet it was before Fred came through and how the heavy rain from Fred contributed to massive flooding in western NC that has left 35 people missing. You can read the blog and see…
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The webinar will provide updated information on the climate, water, and drought status of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin. This drought assessment webinar is brought to you by the Auburn University Water Resources Center and the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS). Presentations from:Florida Climate Center ADECA Office of Water Resources USGS South Atlantic Water…
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Earlier this week I talked about Tropical Storm Henri and how it looked like it would stay out to sea in the Atlantic. But since then, the forecasts have changed and are creeping west and now there is a chance it could hit the Northeast US early next week, although the cone of uncertainty that…
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If you are interested in air quality information and weather data in North Carolina, this new website might be of use to you. The Ambient Information Reporter, or AIR, tool combines a wealth of statewide weather observations from the North Carolina ECONet and National Weather Service with air quality monitors and forecasts from the NCDAQ,…
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Here is a useful article for those of you who are home gardeners and are starting to think about planting fall crops. It’s from The Garden Professors blog, the other blog I contribute to. This one is written by John Porter of University of Nebraska Extension. He includes a map that shows fall frost dates…
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It’s probably not a surprise to anyone that a lot of the Southeast has continued to be cooler than normal this month so far due to rain and cloud cover. In fact, you can see that overnight minimum temperatures are a lot closer to normal than the daytime highs, which are down several degrees from…
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It’s Henri, the 8th storm of 2021! Henri formed today in the Atlantic near Bermuda and looks like it will do a big loop before heading back to the northeast. No threat to any of us here in the US other than perhaps a few waves on the coast. Meanwhile, Fred is moving north along…