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  • How to Protect Your Home During a Hurricane

    Pam Knox

    September 17, 2024

    Time magazine recently posted a story on how you can protect your home during a hurricane. Most of these ideas are things we have discussed before, but since we still have half the hurricane season to go, it’s worth repeating. Preparation ahead of time is crucial for a quicker recovery, including removing outdoor furniture that…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
  • NCSCO: Debby’s Deluge, Late-August Heat Ends a Summer of Extremes

    Pam Knox

    September 17, 2024

    The North Carolina State Climate Office posted their latest monthly and seasonal climate summary earlier this month but I forgot to post it earlier. It shows the wet conditions from Hurricane Debby as well as dry conditions in the western mountains. You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2024/09/debbys-deluge-late-august-heat-ends-a-summer-of-extremes/.

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 brews off the South Carolina coast

    Pam Knox

    September 15, 2024

    A low pressure center with the potential to become a tropical or subtropical storm is developing along the South Carolina coast tonight. If it becomes a named storm, it would become Helene since Gordon is already falling apart in the central Atlantic. Even if it does not get named, it is likely to bring quite…

    Posted in: Uncategorized
  • Interesting stories in the news this week

    Pam Knox

    September 15, 2024

    I took a little time off this week to celebrate my husband John Knox’s award for excellence in teaching in the University System of Georgia as a recipient of the Felton Jenkins, Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Awards, one of the highest awards in the state of Georgia for his work in university teaching. He…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, Crops
  • NOAA: La Niña is favored to emerge in September-November (71% chance)

    Pam Knox

    September 15, 2024

    The latest ENSO prediction from NOAA, issued September 12, shows that we are still in a La Nina watch, with La Nina expected to be officially declared in the September through November time frame. It is expected to be a weak one that will last through the January-March 2025 period. A weak La Nina has…

    Posted in: El Nino and La Nina
  • NOAA: The 15th consecutive month of record-setting global temperatures

    Pam Knox

    September 15, 2024

    Earlier this week NOAA released their monthly climate summary for the globe for August 2024. It showed that this was the 15th month in a row that set a record high temperature for the globe in 175 years of data. It was also the 2nd lowest area of Antarctic sea ice. Nearly all of the…

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • Rainy weekend followed by mostly dry week

    Pam Knox

    September 14, 2024

    I can hear it raining outside my window this morning in Athens, but once this rain moves through over the weekend, we should see a mostly dry week for north Georgia and western parts of the Carolinas and Virginia, with most of the rain focused on areas along the coasts. The rain today is associated…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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