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NOAA and NASA jointly released their global climate summaries for 2019 today at the American Meteorological Society meeting I am attending in Boston this week. Both agencies agreed that 2019 was the second warmest year for the globe since records began in 1880, after 2016, although they used slightly different methods to get their estimates.…
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The year 2019 was remarkable in a number of ways climatologically. One way is the number of billion-dollar weather disasters that occurred. There were 14 different disasters that racked up such high dollar totals, including 3 flooding events, 8 severe storm events, 2 tropical cyclone events, and 1 wildfire event. Nearly half of the loss…
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Cities borrow money by selling municipal bonds. A story this week in the Post and Courier in Charleston SC notes that finance companies are now starting to ask coastal cities are planning for climate change. The interest rates at which they can borrow money are starting to be affected these plans. The same thing is…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the main storm track this week will be in the north and west parts of the Southeast, where several inches may fall over the next seven days. Away from the storm track in the Florida peninsula and along the coasts of the other states, little rain should fall.…
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Yesterday NOAA reported that Georgia had its warmest year on record since statewide observations began in 1895. But what does that really mean? How does it affect our health, ecosystems and industry? You can read more about it from UGA’s Dr. Marshall Shepherd in Forbes.com here.
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Please “save the date” for the Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference to be held in Durham, NC on October 26-28, 2020. For more information, please go to the conference web page at https://cisa.sc.edu/ccrc/.
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The latest text summary of climate information for the Southeast is now available at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionAnnualClimateReport2019.pdf.
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