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After another lull in the tropics, activity has picked up again. Currently, Tropical Storm Gamma is located in the southern Gulf of Mexico bringing heavy rain and some gusty winds to the Yucatan Peninsula. It is expected to wander around that region for the next few days, but the initial impacts on the Southeast are…
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The Resilient Rural America Project is a program that is designed to help rural Americans become more resilient to extreme weather as well as changing climate conditions. You can read more about it at https://resilientruralamerica.org/. One of their major outputs so far has been an online module that rural communities can use to help assess…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that Florida should receive the bulk of the rain this week as the tropics continue to be active. They will see showers from the outskirts of Tropical Storm Gamma and other rain-makers which should stay off the coast of the rest of the Southeast. Those of us who are…
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Growing Georgia published an article from the Georgia Farm Bureau which provided a good and extensive look at the impacts that extreme weather and drought have had on Georgia crops this year. They also discuss what producers are watching as they harvest their crops. You can read it at https://georgia.growingamerica.com/news/2020/10/challenges-loom-harvest-season-commences.
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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…