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The updated April 2021 outlook was released today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. It shows that warmer and drier than normal conditions are expected across the region for most of the month. If this verifies, we will have to watch carefully for the onset of drought in some areas, since plants are coming out of…
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In Japan, they have been keeping track of the peak bloom date of their beautiful cherry blossoms for over 1,200 years. This year, they bloomed earlier than ever before, beating out the old record set in 1409 by a day. After holding steady for the first thousand years of the record, the date of the…
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The Georgia Municipal Association is offering a free webinar on Thursday, April 1, at 1:00 pm on challenges that cities, towns, and counties will have in the future due to warming temperatures and other impacts due to climate change. They will focus on issues like water supply during more frequent droughts, flooding concerns from aging…
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We’ve been doing well avoiding frost for the last few weeks as our blueberries and peaches bloomed, and I thought for a while that we might squeak by without another frost, at least in the southern states of our region. But it looks like another brief cold outbreak could bring frost to a wide part…
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Since I have a son who was crazy about trains when he was younger, I always note stories about new uses for public transportation. Here is an interesting story from Massive Science that describes an new initiative by Salt Lake City to measure air pollution across the city by putting sensors on their TRAX light…
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Is the sun causing climate change? Is more carbon dioxide good for plants? Is a snowstorm proof that there is no global warming? Are climatologists getting paid lots of money to promote extreme climate scenarios in the future (hah)? If you get questions about climate change from people who are uncertain or skeptical about it,…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that while most of the Southeast will get rain this week, most of the Florida peninsula will stay warm and dry, which could increase the drought there on next week’s Drought Monitor map. One storm will bring rain to northern AL and GA and the mountains later this weekend,…
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