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In this busy hurricane season, it has been hard to keep track of all the land-falling storms, especially those outside of the Southeast. But two of the most devastating came onshore only a few miles apart, and each caused tremendous damage through winds, flooding rain, and landslides. The two storms, Eta and Iota, have caused…
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available from the NC Climate Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=329&h=5666e5c1.
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If you drive through southeast Alabama or southwest Georgia, you can still see plenty of damage from Hurricane Michael, which hit there in 2018. Researchers with Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences are currently working on a “Downed Timber Initiative,” which aims to develop new methods of using fallen trees and branches decimated…
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The latest monthly climate summary for November 2020 is now available from the Southeastern Regional Climate Center. You can view it at https://sercc.co/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportNovember2020.pdf.
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This week’s Drought Monitor shows a slight decrease in abnormally dry conditions in Alabama and Georgia and no change in South Carolina, Florida and Puerto Rico. There continues to be no drought in the region. I don’t foresee any big changes in next week’s map, either.
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At my Flash Drought conference this week, one of the tools mentioned that I had not seen in a while was a map of short-term dry conditions that covers the US and provides a detailed spatial look at the variability of those conditions. It is the QuickDRI map that is available at https://quickdri.unl.edu/. In addition…
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Today marks the first day of climatological (or meteorological) winter. This year, parts of the Southeast even saw snow yesterday, which does not often happen so early in our winter season. Hope you are enjoying the colder weather! If you would like to know more about why climatological seasons are not the same as astronomical…