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The rain this past week, while not excessive, did manage to eliminate drought in Virginia and South Carolina and reduced it in Georgia and Alabama. Scattered small areas of moderate drought continue in those states and abnormally dry conditions are present in Florida and Puerto Rico as well as the states with drought. The next…
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The tenth named storm of 2020, Josephine has formed in the central Atlantic Ocean and is expected to chug along at tropical storm force for the next few days before slowly dying into a tropical depression. The forecast path of Josephine keeps it well offshore so no impacts are expected in the Southeast. You can…
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Join us for the next UGA Extension Webinar as our experts discuss how to prepare your family, home and workplace this hurricane season! LIVE via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/96725589169) on Thursday, August 13 at 10:30 a.m.
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The derecho that moved through the Midwest yesterday did a tremendous amount of damage to the crops in the region. Here is a comparison of before and after images which show how much corn was knocked down by winds of up to 113 mph. https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2020/08/200728_200811_terra_modis_trueColorRGB_Iowa_derecho_crop_damage_anim.gif. If you don’t know what a derecho is, Dr. Marshall…
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UPDATE: Recording now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soehiuBGjRM. Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar on Tuesday, August 11 at 10 AM EDT! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and…
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The latest monthly climate summary for July 2020 is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can read it (it is text only) at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportJuly2020.pdf.
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A new book on the impact of hurricanes on the history of the United States is going to be released later this summer, and it looks like it will be very interesting. Smithsonian posted a story about the book, A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred Year History of America’s Hurricanes in their latest magazine issue. I…