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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…
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We’ve had a lot of scattered severe weather over the summer, and with that comes not only strong winds and lightning but some hail, with sizes ranging from a quarter inch to tennis-ball sized. As you can imagine, if the hail hits your crops, especially at a sensitive time in development, it can destroy an…
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There is scattered rain in the forecast every day this week, but the total amounts predicted for the week, ranging from less than half an inch along Florida’s East Coast to about 1.5 inches in eastern Virginia, will be barely enough to keep up with water demands from many of the Southeast’s crops. Many crops…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released yesterday, shows that the heavy rain from Tropical Storm Isaias removed all drought from Puerto Rico and Virginia, leaving just a few lingering areas of abnormally dry conditions. There were no real changes to the dry conditions in Florida and South Carolina, but Alabama and Georgia saw slight increases due…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US was just released with July 2020 information. The report shows that for the contiguous US, it was the 11th warmest year on record, and it was also in the top third wettest of all years, although parts of the Southeast were quite dry. For the year to…
Posted in: Climate summaries