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The latest monthly climate summary for March 2020 is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=314&h=5666e5c1.
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Another story from Vegetable and Specialty Crop News this week discusses the pecan crop for 2020. The trees are blooming 2-3 weeks early due to the warm weather, and there are many catkins on the trees, indicating that the pollen from the male flowers will be available once the female flower start blooming. Rainy conditions…
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NOAA’s latest climate summary for March 2020 was released today. In it they show that March was the 10th warmest on record and was in the top third of years for precipitation. They also noted that so far this year the US has had two billion-dollar disasters, both due to severe weather. You can read…
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I’ve been getting questions about the peaches this year, so this is a timely article about the peach season in Alabama and Georgia. While we had a warm winter, most varieties of peaches appear to have gotten enough chill hours to make a good crop, according to an article today in Vegetable and Specialty Crop…
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I received this notice about four virtual listening sessions on the new proposed Drought Dashboard for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Drought Early Warning System and want to pass it along to you. They were originally intended to be held in person, but because of the pandemic have been moved to online discussions. I encourage you to…
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The latest monthly summary of climate conditions is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can access it at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportMarch2020.pdf.
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the largest rain amounts this week are expected to fall in central Alabama and Georgia, with southern areas, the Carolinas, and the Florida peninsula expecting much less than normal. This could lead to an increase or expansion in drought in the areas that are already experiencing dry conditions…
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