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The UGA Weather Network got a nice mention by Walter Reeves, the Georgia Gardener, in his weekly newsletter a few days ago. In one of his short articles he says that if you are thinking about planting fall bulbs, you should wait until the nighttime temperatures are consistently below 60 F. The best place to…
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Another month has come and gone and so today we will look at the preliminary climate summary for September 2020. The maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show that average temperatures were near to slightly above normal across most of the region. If you break it down into maximum and minimum temperatures, you…
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Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information posted a map today which shows the 5-year average temperature ranking by county (September 2015 to August 2020) for the continental US. It shows that for large parts of the country including most of the Southeast, this has been the warmest 5-year temperature since records began…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released their updated outlook for October this week. It shows that most of the Southeast is now leaning towards cooler and drier conditions than normal. The Florida peninsula is the only area that is expected to be warmer and wetter than normal. This is weighted mainly towards the first half of…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that areas of abnormally dry (D0) conditions generally continue to get smaller across the region. One area of a new introduction is along the western border of Alabama, where a small area of D0 was added this week. For most of the region next week should be quite…
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A new report from NOAA assesses the vulnerability of each state to drought. According to their report, “If asked where in the United States is most vulnerable to drought, you might point to those states in the West currently suffering under hot and dry conditions and raging wildfires. However, according to a new NOAA-funded assessment, what makes a…
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The Resilient Rural America Project is a free online training program to help rural communities to become better equipped to withstand extreme weather and changing climate. They are working to produce a series of training modules to help rural communities learn more about extreme weather and changes in climate and how they can become more…
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