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Since we are halfway through the month, I thought we should take a look at the monthly statistics so far. For most of the region, the temperatures have been above normal. With the cold blast coming through early in the week, these will drop somewhat, but since it will start to warm up again after…
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A new study that was recently published in the journal Nature shows that scientists studying sea-level rise have been using methods that underestimate how high the water already is. One result is that hundreds of millions more people worldwide are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated, according…
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The Climate Prediction Center issued their monthly update on the ENSO today. The report indicates that while La Nina is still present, it is just barely holding on and is expected to end in the next month, leading to the return of neutral conditions. CPC is predicting a fairly quick swing to El Nino conditions…
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Since we are likely to be switching from the weak La Nina we are currently in to neutral and then El Nino by later this summer, Climate.gov thought it was a good idea to remind us all that La Nina and El Nino have different impacts on spring tornadoes and hailstorms as well as on…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows only a few small changes in the map compared to last week, with slight increases in drought area overall. There were a few small areas of improvement in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. There was no change in the Puerto Rico map, with less than one percent of…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office published their latest monthly summary for February 2026 online. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2026/03/snow-melted-but-severe-drought-continued-in-february/.
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The freezes that affected Florida, Georgia, and Alabama have made farmers in the affected counties eligible for emergency loans to cover losses from those counties. There were a total of five different triggering events with different sets of counties affected by each one. Applications for the loans are due by November 4, 2026. You can…