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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…
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According to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, “The July 2021 global surface temperature was 1.67°F (0.93°C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4°F (15.8°C) — the highest for July in the 142-year record. This value was only 0.02°F (0.01°C) higher than the previous record set in 2016, and tied in 2019 and 2020. The seven…
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Lots going on in the tropics today! Fred has regained its strength and is back to a tropical storm. Not too likely to become a hurricane, though, so the main impacts will continue to be gusty winds, a small chance of an isolated tornado, and lots of rain along and to the right of the…
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With Fred and then Grace likely to affect farms in the Southeast this weekend and next week, there are plenty of things that you can do to get ready for the storms. In this case, both storms are lkely to feature plenty of rain along with some strong wind gusts and perhaps a few weak…
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The tropics are the stars of this week’s rain forecast. TD Fred is expected to bring a lot of rain to Florida early this week, and then the focus mid-week will shift to northern GA and parts of the Carolinas and perhaps Virginia. The amount and timing of the rain depends tremendously on where the…
Posted in: Climate outlooks