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If you worry about excessive heat and humidity and its impacts on your outdoor workers or on your exercising students, you may be interested in this new climatology of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) across the Southeast. This set of maps from the Southeast Regional Climate Center provide month by month images of how WBGT…
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Today, NOAA released their new climate normals for the 1991-2020 period. These 30-year averages replaced the old normals that covered the period from 1981-2010. This is done every ten years to provide a consistent period of time for use in comparing monthly and annual climate information. There have been a number of news stories about…
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On Tuesday, May 4, NOAA will released the long-anticipated 30-year normals for temperature, precipitation, degree days, and several other variables. These values are updated once every ten years and will cover the period 1991-2020. The previous set of normals was based on 1981-2010. Because of the rising temperature in the US and across the globe,…
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Severe drought causes significant impacts for farmers across the world. Here is a story from Yahoo News on the lengthy drought in Turkey and how desperate farmers overusing irrigation are causing sinkholes to develop in their fields as they remove the groundwater. Not so different than the overuse of groundwater in California except that in…
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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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Here’s an interesting story about freeze protection of apples in Italy. While I know that Southeastern farmers use irrigation to protect blueberries from freezing conditions, this is the first time that I have read about Italian farmers using the same method to protect their apples. The system they use is a little different in that…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that this weekend looks nice and dry across most of the region. By Sunday night rain will start to enter from the west. Alabama will experience the heaviest rains Monday and Tuesday, with several inches in some areas. The week should end with mostly dry conditions across the area.…
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