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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that rain will affect most of the Southeast except for the Florida peninsula this week. The heaviest rain will be located in North Carolina, which should help the drought there. For the most part, the rain is associated with a front that is moving back and forth through the…
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As usual, I will be shutting down the blog until the end of the year so I can take some vacation to enjoy time with my family and friends. Thank you so much for your continued support of this blog and your kind words to me! I hope that you learned a few things this…
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While there are still a few days to go before the end of 2021, a quick look at the year to date statistics shows that most of the region was warmer than normal for the year as a whole. The wettest areas were generally also the coolest due to the combination of wet soils and…
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The end of 2021 is finally approaching, and the stories summarizing the climate for the year are starting to appear. Here are two that I have seen so far. There will be a lot more once we hit the official end of the year, and I will provide a list of them in a future…
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The rainy and cloudy weather this year has affected a lot of pecan production in the Southeast, but as Clint Thompson of Vegetable and Specialty Crop News points out, growers are still feeling the impacts of tree loss due to Hurricane Michael in 2018. Many trees have still not recovered from the damaging winds and…
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One of the ways that farmers in the Southeast are becoming more resilient to changing markets and changing weather conditions is to add new crops that can take advantage of these trends. This story from the Atlanta Journal Constitution describes how one farmer in southern Georgia started growing olives for oil. One thing I learned…
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The December solstice (winter solstice for the Northern Hemisphere, and summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere) occurs this year on December 21 at 10:59 am EST. For us in the Southeast, it marks the shortest day of the year. I for one am looking forward to seeing the day length increase again! It is also…