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For those of you who missed the monthly climate webinar for the Southeast and would like to watch it now, you can view a video of the webinar at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JscdzjwyDU&feature=youtu.be .
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This week’s Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows an expansion of severe drought in the southern counties of Alabama and the development of moderate drought in adjacent Florida Panhandle counties. The drought in southern Florida did not change much as some areas did receive some rain. The only areas of the Southeast that are expected…
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This is your last chance (at least for now) to help design the new Drought Dashboard for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin. Even if you are not right in the basin, if you are near it and want a web site which will provide you with an overview of available weather and climate information for the…
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Here is a good basic article on natural and human causes of climate change from The Conversation. This article focuses on the role of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, although of course there are other causes too, such as land use changes, changes in albedo from sea and land ice, and solar radiation changes. You…
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Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about all of the natural disasters that have affected Georgia blueberry growers over the past few years. In previous years it has been late frosts and tropical storms; this year it was severe weather in the form of heavy hail that wiped out crops at…
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The latest global climate statistics are now available from NOAA. The new summary for April 2020 shows that the global monthly temperature was the second warmest on record, falling a tenth of a degree below April 2016, which was an El Nino year. Unlike a lot of the world, the Southeast was in a relatively…
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The National Hurricane Center’s map of 5-day potential tropical activity shows a wide region off the Atlantic Coast with a 70 percent chance of developing into a tropical system, although the chance in the next 48 hours is near zero. If this does develop into a tropical storm, it would be named Arthur, and would…