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Today is February 29, which happens about once every four years. If you are interested in why we need to add an extra day to our calendar in some years, you will be interested in watching a video and reading more at EarthSky here.
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After a dry weekend, rain returns to inland parts of the Southeast on Monday, with rain continuing through mid-week before tapering off by week’s end. The pattern of wet north, dry south continues again this week, with the northern and western edges of the region in the Tennessee River Valley seeing the potential for several…
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If you like weather history, you will be interested in this story map on extreme weather events for the state of South Carolina. It contains a lot of different information on the great storms, droughts, and hurricanes of the past 300 or more years, with pictures, maps and other items of interest. You can view…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that while drought was removed from Georgia and was reduced in Florida, the area of abnormally dry conditions in Florida expanded quite a bit. That region has been missed by most of the recent rains, leading to the degradation in soil moisture there. No relief for…
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The Dahlonega Nugget had an interesting story this week about the negative impacts of this warm winter has had on bee populations in northeast Georgia. According to the story, the warmer conditions cause the bees to be more active, but with few flowers blooming they use up more energy foraging for food than they can…
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The Georgia Department of Agriculture is in the process of finalizing relief payments to farmers in Georgia that were affected by Hurricane Michael in 2018 but who were not eligible to get payments through other USDA programs. If you are in one of the 95 counties…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center has a new outlook video available on YouTube. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFZctPAgXnU&feature=youtu.be .