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For those of you who are in Georgia, you might be interested in this new web site recently introduced by the Georgia Climate Project. You can see it at https://www.georgiaclimateproject.org/portal/. This portal is intended to provide resources to address how climate change is affecting different sectors of Georgia’s economy and environment. The first theme is…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the Southeast covering September 2020 is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can read it at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportSeptember2020.pdf.
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The latest outlook from the National Hurricane Center is that Hurricane Delta, now a category 4 storm, is continuing pretty much as expected towards the NW and should make its initial landfall on the northern tip of the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico near Cancun on Wednesday. It will then continue to move through the Gulf…
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In this blog we often talk about the impacts of El Nino and La Nina about the local climate. But the combination of the two, called ENSO for El Nino Southern Oscillation, also affects the climate across many other parts of the world, causing floods in some places and droughts in others. This article from…
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The monthly climate summary for September 2020 for North Carolina is now available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=325&h=5666e5c1.
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Short Survey on Flash Drought NIDIS is partnering with the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) on a short survey to better understand how flash drought is perceived by drought managers and decision makers as well as within the research community. In addition, this survey will explore perspectives on responding to and managing flash drought, including…
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This morning Delta became a tropical storm, but by this evening it was already a hurricane due to rapid pressure falls in the center of circulation. The latest forecast now indicates that Delta is likely to be a major hurricane as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico, although it is expected to weaken before it…