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The latest Drought Monitor, released yesterday morning, shows that the patch of severe (D2) drought has been removed from southwest Florida due to heavy rains this past week. Elsewhere there were very minor changes to the drought pattern. You can view the current map as well as past maps at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/. With relatively light rainfall…
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In spite of all the rain parts of the Southeast have had this year, there are areas that are quite dry and where producers are having to irrigate. But irrigating where it is not needed wastes water and energy to pump, so you want to make sure you are watering appropriately. Here are a couple…
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Here’s an interesting chart which shows how billion-dollar weather disasters change by month across the US (you can also break it down by regions and states). You probably will not be surprised to see that winter storm damage is highest in winter, freeze events in spring, and drought in summer. But the chart is still…
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While folks in the Southeast watch the end of TS Bertha and look ahead to the impending Atlantic tropical season, tropical cyclones have already been causing misery in other parts of the world. Last Wednesday Super Cyclone Amphan (a category 5 storm) moved north from the Bay of Bengal and made landfall on the coasts…
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In a surprise to many meteorologists, Tropical Storm Bertha formed just off the coast of South Carolina as it was coming onshore. Overnight last night the National Hurricane Center said that it had only a 30 percent chance of development, but by 7:30 Wednesday morning it was bumped up to 70 percent, and by 8:30…
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In today’s webinar (recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWnEtfS6gVk&feature=youtu.be) on climate conditions in the ACF river basin in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, discussed some recent changes in the temperature profile of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Over the last month, the ocean temperature distribution has started to look much more like a La…
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I received a request yesterday for reference evapotranspiration for a location in Alabama. While there are several mesonets that collect weather data in Alabama, none of them was at the location that the request was for. In my search I found that the North Carolina Climate Office weather data map site contained quite a bit…